[R] combining vectors on unequal length

[Julian Burgos]

Well, if you bind two vectors you form an array with dimensions 2 x 
length of the longest vector.  So you need to decide how to fill up the 
'empty' spacies corresponding to the shorter vector.  Recycling the 
shorter vector is the default action.

If you just want to save the data, you could create a list and save it 
as a R object.

my.list=list(X,Y)
save(my.list)

Julian


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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