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I'm sure I've read about the difference between a[[i]] and a[i] in R, but I cannot recall what I read. Even more disturbing is the fact that I don't know how to search the newsgroup for this. All the different combinations I tried were declared not to be valid search syntax. 1. What sort of object can the operators [] and [[]] be applied to? How do they differ? I mean objects in