Unexpected Behaviors of the R Programming Language

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Consider this R code where it creates an R vector.

# create a vector
v <- c(1, 2, 3)

Here is a seemingly simple task - how do you get the container type of the vector v?

I’m looking for a straightforward function that would return “vector” if I pass v as an argument.

some_function(v) # should return "vector"

My first intuition is to use the commonly used functions to inspect objects - typeof(), class() and mode().

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