Use &
and not &&
. R is different from other languages in that the &
is not a bitwise and
, but a logical operator.
&&
only evaluates the first element of each vector:
‘&’ and ‘&&’ indicate logical AND and ‘|’ and ‘||’ indicate logical OR. The shorter form performs elementwise comparisons in much the same way as arithmetic operators. The longer form evaluates left to right examining only the first element of each vector. Evaluation proceeds only until the result is determined. The longer form is appropriate for programming control-flow and typically preferred in ‘if’ clauses.
See ?"&&"
for more details.