But we won't need to worry about that. The result is a character string indicating the type of data. If S-PLUS cannot figure out what to do, it will generate missing values and issue a warning message. By default, S-PLUS tends to create numeric objects with double precision. Single precision is almost never used.
Integer representation is used when it makes sense to do so.
There are three basic ways to access elements or portions of a vector. In this next example, one operand has length 2 and the other has length 6. If the length of the longer operand is not a mutiple of the length of the shorter one, S-PLUS will perform the operation but you will get a warning message.