问题本身很明确:
如果在字符(0)上粘贴一些字符串,它将自动消失,代码和结果如下:
paste(paste(NULL,character(0),sep = "\n"),character(0),sep = "\n")
character(0)
但是,如果用列表包装字符(0),则代码和结果为:
paste(paste(NULL,list(character(0)),sep = "\n"),list(character(0)),sep = "\n")
[1] "\ncharacter(0)\ncharacter(0)"