On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 7:33 PM, jim holtman<jholt...@gmail.com> wrote: > -8^1/3 is parsed as -(8^1)/3 = -2.66666 >
However the following is evaluated as one would expect: > 8^(1/3) [1] 2 > -8^(1/3) [1] -2 Perhaps it is parsed in this way: > -(8^(1/3)) [1] -2 Liviu ______________________________________________ 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.
