Message-ID: <4CAEEEE9.6040607@gmail.com>
Date: 2010-10-08T10:14:01Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: NULL assignment will change the expression's class into list
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinLmOiRjZA_DhsbYwgCv=ZhQ0DoP-a3hUacG8GP@mail.gmail.com>
Vitalie Spinu wrote:
> Hello Everyone!
>
> NULL replacement will change expression object into list:
>
>
>> te <- expression(a=23*4, b=33-2)
>> te
>>
> expression(a = 23 * 4, b = 33 - 2)
>
>
>> te[["a"]] <- quote(blabla) #ok
>> te
>>
> expression(a = blabla, b = 33 - 2)
>
>
>> te[["a"]] <- NULL #change to list
>> te
>>
> $b
> 33 - 2
>
> I am on w32, version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
>
That's certainly an inconsistency, still present in a recent R-devel
(but I haven't checked the latest beta). I don't know if it's a bug:
NULL assignments are handled specially in other situations (e.g. if te
was a list to start, the NULL assignment would remove the "a" entry).
A simple workaround is to use
te["a"] <- expression(NULL)
or te <- te[-1]
instead, depending on what you expected to happen.
Duncan Murdoch
> Regards,
> Vitally.
>
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