On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Nick Cox<[email protected]> wrote:
> Nothing in R restricts the idea of length to time series.
>
Indeed, from ?length...
length package:base R Documentation
Length of an Object
Description:
Get or set the length of vectors (including lists) and factors,
and of any other R object for which a method has been defined.
Usage:
length(x)
length(x) <- value
Arguments:
x: an R object. For replacement, a vector or factor.
value: an integer.
Details:
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