On the surface this seems pretty simple, but I flummoxed. I have two sets of numbers they bounce around zero, positive one and negative one. They have a relationship between them, where one diverges away from the other. I want create a second set of numbers that tracks that divergence.
#Lets make some data like mine, kinda Firstset <- runif(100, min = -1 , max =1) Secondset <- runif(100, min = -1 , max =1) #So something like: Divergence <- abs (Firstset - Secondset) #but this doesn't work because when Firstset is at .5 and Secondset is at -.25 it returns .25 instead of .75 #another possibility is: Divergence <- abs (Firstset) - abs (Secondset) #but when Firstset is at .5 and Secondset is at -.5 it returns 0 instead of 1 #It seems like there is a better way to do this. Any ideas? ______________________________________________ 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.
