[R] Newbie help on dim

[Uwe Ligges]

Christian Prinoth wrote:

> Hi, if I do
> 
> Z<-rnorm(50)
> Followed by
> Dim(Z)
> I get NULL. Is this correct? Shouldn't I get 50 instead?


No, because Z has no dim attribute. ?dim tells you:

"For an array (and hence in particular, for a matrix) dim retrieves the 
dim attribute of the object. It is NULL or a vector of mode integer."

> TIA
> Chris
> 
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Uwe Ligges