livia wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have got a question about a simple calculation. If I would like to > calculate 50/12 and return the result as 4 and the remainer 2. Is there a > function of doing this? > > Many thanks.
?"%%" to see how to get the remainder. You might put the "result" and remainder together in a function like this: myfunc <- function(x,y){list(result = floor(x / y), remainder = x %% y)} myfunc(x=50, y=12) $result [1] 4 $remainder [1] 2 -- Chuck Cleland, Ph.D. NDRI, Inc. 71 West 23rd Street, 8th floor New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 845-4495 (Tu, Th) tel: (732) 512-0171 (M, W, F) fax: (917) 438-0894 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.