[R] combining vectors on unequal length

[Don MacQueen]

Something like this, perhaps:

cbind( X,
   c(Y, rep(NA,length(X)-length(Y)))
)

This just extends Y with NA instead of recycling Y.
If you are going to cbind() the vectors must be the same length. You 
*must* have something there.

-Don

At 1:51 PM -0400 10/4/07, Nair, Murlidharan T wrote:
>If I have two vectors
>X<-1:10
>Y<-1:5
>When I combine them using cbind, the shorter one is repeated and 
>both are made of the same length. Is there a methods that does this 
>without duplicating the shorter one. I want to use this to store the 
>data back to a file.
>Thanks ../Murli
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