Hi,
I am new to R. I was trying to get a very simple program to run. Take one
number from the command line. If the number < 0 return -1. If number > 0 return
1 and if the number == 0 return 0. The code is in a file called test1.R
The code:
#useage: R --no-save --args 5 < test1.R
args = (commandArgs(TRUE))
x = as.numeric(args[1])
print(x)
res <- conditional1(x)
cat("result= ",res,"\n")
conditional1 <- function(x){
result <- 0
if (x > 0) {
result <- 1
} else if (x < 0) {
result <- -1
}
return(result)
}
The output:
>R --no-save --slave --args 1 < test1.R
[1] 1
result= 1
>R --no-save --slave --args -1 < test1.R
[1] -1
result= -1
>] R --no-save --slave --args 0 < test1.R
[1] 0
result= -1
The problem:
For arguments 1 and -1 it works as intended. For 0 (zero) it does not. If the 0
value is passed into the function named "conditional1" I would expect both
if-statements to evaluate to false and 0 being return. From what I can tell (0
< 0) evaluates to true since -1 is returned. Hmmmmm...
What is going on? What am I doing wrong? Why is this happening? I am baffled!
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Mike
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