[R] Zero Index Origin?

[Bob Cain]

Peter Dalgaard wrote:


> I think it was said quite early in the thread, but since noone
> apparently listened, let me reiterate: One of the powerful indexing
> features in R is the negative index ("all, except") and x[-0] would
> lead to some complications if 0 was a true index. 
> 

Interesting.  The kind of gotcha I hoped wouldn't exist. 
Others?

I've thought of another one.  Legacy functions that accept 
indices as arguments from a 0-origin caller.


Bob
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