Extending a vector to length n
The following approach works for both of your examples: xx <- rep(x, length.out=n) xx[m:n] <- NA Thus:
n <- 2 aa <- rep(a, length.out=n) aa[(length(a)+1):n] <- NA aa
[1] "2008-01-01" NA
bb <- rep(b, length.out=n) bb[(length(b)+1):n] <- NA bb
[1] a <NA> Levels: a
R. Raubertas Merck & Co
-----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of hadley wickham Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 10:55 AM To: r-help Subject: [R] Extending a vector to length n In general, how can I increase a vector of length m (< n) to length n by padding it with m - n missing values, without losing attributes? The two approaches I've tried, using length<- and adding missings with c, do not work in general:
a <- as.Date("2008-01-01")
c(a, NA)
[1] "2008-01-01" NA
length(a) <- 2 a
[1] 13879 NA
b <- factor("a")
c(b, NA)
[1] 1 NA
length(b) <- 2 b
[1] a <NA> Levels: a Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/
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