Hi Akshay, (Please include r-help when replying)
You have learned that PFC.NS and snl[[159]] are not identical. Now you have to figure out why they differ. This could also point to a bug or a logic error in your program. Figuring out how two objects differ can be a bit tricky, but with experience it becomes easier. (Some others may even have some suggestions for good ways to do it.) Basically you would work your way down. At the top level is the class of each, which you already tested and they are identical. Now try: > str(PFC.NS) and compare it to > str(snl[[159]] Look closely at the two outputs to try to detect differences. If they are the same then you will have to examine the sub-objects described by str(). You didn't mention what type of objects they are. Suppose they are both "numeric" vectors. Then you can check whether their lengths are equal. And you can compare their values, etc. etc. No short cut that I can think of without more information. It definitely takes work to find discrepancies. Think of it as a challenge and perhaps write functions that you can use to automate this kind of comparison in the future. (Again, other people on this list might be able to point to tools that help with this for objects of specific type.) Good luck, Eric dear Eric, Bulls eye...! identical(PFC.NS, snl[[159]])) is resulting false..but class(PFC.NS) and class(snl[[159]]) are same... I want snl[[159]] to be equal to PFC.NS...how do I effect it? create a list with some other element list... for example snl[[200]] == PFC.NS? very many thanks for your time and effort... yours sincerely, AKSHAY M KULKARNI ------------------------------ *From:* Eric Berger <ericjber...@gmail.com> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 14, 2018 5:22 PM *To:* akshay kulkarni *Cc:* R help Mailing list *Subject:* Re: [R] the same function returning different values when called differently.. Hi Akshay, Presumably PFC.NS and snl[[159]] are not exactly the same. You can start by trying to determine if (and then how) they differ. e.g. > identical(PFC.NS, snl[[159]]) presumably this will result in FALSE then compare > class(PFC.NS) > class(snl[[159]]) etc HTH, Eric On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 1:42 PM, akshay kulkarni <akshay...@hotmail.com> wrote: dear members, I have a function ygrpc which acts on the daily price increments of a stock. It returns the following values: ygrpc(PFC.NS,"h") [1] 2.149997 1.875000 0.750000 0.349991 2.100006 0.199997 4.000000 2.574996 0.500000 0.349999 1.500000 0.700001 [13] 0.500000 1.300003 0.449997 2.800003 2.724998 66.150002 0.550003 0.050003 1.224991 4.899994 1.375000 1.574997 [25] 1.649994 0.449997 0.975006 2.475006 0.125000 2.625000 3.649994 0.399994 1.300003 2.074997 1.025001 0.125000 [37] 3.849999 0.025002 0.824997 1.750000 1.699997 1.750000 1.699997 0.275002 2.300003 0.349998 0.750000 0.224998 [49] 0.125000 1.475006 1.599998 0.125000 0.500000 0.700005 1.099998 0.225006 1.274997 1.300003 3.000000 0.300003 [61] 0.724999 3.699997 2.424995 8.425003 1.099991 2.025009 0.850006 4.000000 1.724991 0.949997 1.825012 2.799988 [73] 0.425003 1.799995 5.700005 2.125000 0.125000 4.000000 2.350006 1.524994 1.299995 0.300003 0.949997 0.449997 [85] 1.899994 1.700005 1.150009 0.849998 2.449997 5.300003 0.19999 I also have a list of stocks called "snl" with snl[[159]] pointing to PFC.NS (above): tail(snl[[159]]) PFC.NS.Open PFC.NS.High PFC.NS.Low PFC.NS.Close PFC.NS.Volume PFC.NS.Adjusted 2018-03-07 98.40 98.45 95.1 95.30 7854861 95.30 2018-03-08 94.90 94.95 89.3 91.90 12408061 91.90 2018-03-09 92.00 94.50 91.9 93.10 7680222 93.10 2018-03-12 93.40 93.85 86.1 88.25 12617833 88.25 2018-03-13 89.20 91.85 86.2 89.85 12792630 89.85 2018-03-14 88.65 89.30 86.1 86.70 16406495 86.70 But ygrpc(snl[[159]],"h") returns : ygrpc(snl[[159]],"h") [1] 1 Can you please shed some light on what is happening? Very many thanks for your time and effort.... Yours sincerely AKSHAY M KULKARNI [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help R-help -- Main R Mailing List: Primary help - Homepage - SfS <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> stat.ethz.ch The main R mailing list, for announcements about the development of R and the availability of new code, questions and answers about problems and solutions using R ... PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.