[R] Confusing concept of vector and matrix in R

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Actually R looks at it the other way around. It regards a matrix as a
special case of a vector.  A vector has no dimensions.  A vector with
dimensions is an array.  An array with two dimensions is a matrix.

Try using drop=FALSE like this:

m <- matrix(1:6, 3)
m[, 2, drop = FALSE]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:13 PM, yehengxin <xye78 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why does R need the concept of "Vector"?  In my opinion, it is a useless and
> confusing concept.  A vector is simply a special case of a matrix whose row
> or column number is equal to 1.  When I take submatrix from one matrix and
> if row or column number is 1, R will automatically convert it into a vector.
> It is very straightforward that a submatrix of a matrix should be a matrix.
> In each time, I have to use as.matrix() to convert the vector back to
> matrix.    It is very annoying!
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