On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 04:40:07PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
[...]
> A basic solution for this special case would be
>
> zt=function(x){
> if (sd(x) == 0) return(0*x) else return( (x-mean(x))/sd(x) )
> }
>
> This should cover the case where length(table(x))==1 (see also below).
>
> I'm not happy about your conditions
>
> if (length(table(x)>1))
> if (length(table(x)==1))
>
> since they ask for "length(table(x)>1)", which doesn't seem
> to represent any natural criterion. E.g.:
>
> length(table(1:10)>1)
> # [1] 10
> length(table(rep(1,10))>1)
> # [1] 1
>
> if(length(table(1:10)>1)) y <- "Yes" else y <- "No" ; y
> # [1] "Yes"
> if(length(table(rep(1,10))>1)) y <- "Yes" else y <- "No" ; y
> # [1] "Yes"
>
> length(table(1:10)==1)
> # [1] 10
> length(table(rep(1,10))==1)
> # [1] 1
>
> if(length(table(1:10)==1)) y <- "Yes" else y <- "No" ; y
> # [1] "Yes"
> if(length(table(rep(1,10))==1)) y <- "Yes" else y <- "No" ; y
> # [1] "Yes"
>
> I suspect you meant to write
>
> if (length(table(x))>1)
> and
> if (length(table(x)))==1)
>
> since this distinguishes between two more more different values
> (length(table(x)) > 1) and all equal values (length(table(x)) == 1).
Hi.
The condition length(table(x)) > 1 may also be written as
lentgh(unique(x)) > 1. These two conditions are usually
equivalent, but not always due to the rounding to 15 digits
performed in table(). For example
x <- 1 + (0:10)*2^-52
length(table(x)) # [1] 1
length(unique(x)) # [1] 11
sd(x) # [1] 7.364386e-16
diff(x) # [1] 2.220446e-16 2.220446e-16 2.220446e-16 ...
Petr Savicky.
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