How to create an empty R vector to add new items

Question

I want to use R in Python, as provided by the module Rpy2. I notice that R has very convenient [] operations by which you can extract the specific columns or li

Answer 1

As pointed out by Brani, vector() is a solution, e.g.

newVector <- vector(mode = "numeric", length = 50)

will return a vector named "newVector" with 50 "0"'s as initial values. It is also fairly common to just add the new scalar to an existing vector to arrive at an expanded vector, e.g.

aVector <- c(aVector, newScalar)