Extract: Extract or Replace Parts of brobs or glubs

In Brobdingnag: Very Large Numbers in R

Extract or Replace Parts of brobs or glubs

Description

Methods for "[" and "[<-", i.e., extraction or subsetting of brobs and glubs.

Arguments

x	Object of class brob or glub
i	elements to extract or replace
value	replacement value

Value

Always returns an object of the same class as x.

Note

If x is a numeric vector and y a brob, one might expect typing x[1] <- y to result in x being a brob. This is impossible, according to John Chambers.

Author(s)

Robin K. S. Hankin

Examples

a <- as.brob(10)^c(-100,0,100,1000,1e32)

a[4]

a[4] <- 1e100

a

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