On Sat, 11 May 2002 pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca wrote:
I don't seem to be able to initialize a vector of NAs. I hope this is a bug and not a new feature (I realize I have not paid much attention to a lot of recent discussion about NA):
It's an incorrect use!
From the help page:
mode: A character string giving an atomic mode, or `"any"'. I think you meant rep(NA, 3).
platform sparc-sun-solaris2.6 arch sparc os solaris2.6 system sparc, solaris2.6 status major 1 minor 5.0 year 2002 month 04 day 29 language R
vector(NA, 3)
Error in vector(NA, 3) : vector: cannot make a vector of mode "NA".
matrix(NA,2,2)
[,1] [,2] [1,] NA NA [2,] NA NA
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