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-- Bert

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:50 AM, JulioSergio <juliosergio@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
>
> > You probably want:
> > L["NewName"] <- "something"
> > or one of the many potential variants.
> >
>
> Thanks, Sara,
> That works!
> However, following the idea that the syntactic notation L[i] means
> a sublist of L, again the syntactic notation
>
> L[i] <- list(Name=Value)
>
> should mean that the sublist is now assigned the list with the a unique
> named
> element. So I insist this is either a bug or an inconsistency of the
> language.
>

... or you don't understand what's going on!  See the R Language Definition
sections on lists and their subscripting to correct your misunderstanding.

-- Bert

>
> Thanks again,
>
> Sergio.
>
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