[R] Manual recycling of vectors?

[Charilaos Skiadas]

Sorry if this is already answered somewhere, but I could not find it.  
I have two vectors, x,y, of different length, and I want to recycle  
the smaller one (whichever one it is) until they have the same  
length. I was wondering if there is a anything better than something  
like:

x<-1:3
y<-1:10
x<-rep(x,length=max(x,y))
y<-rep(y,length=max(x,y))

or some variant of that using if to avoid the two calls to rep.

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College