Re: [R] Minor warning about seq

2010-12-02 Thread Carl Witthoft
I believe the R intro manual and R-inferno have some pretty stern warnings about never using 'c' or 't' as variable names, for obvious reasons. Similarly, I nearly crushed some code once by writing a nice little function to find the mode of a data set and calling the function "mode()" . (co

Re: [R] Minor warning about seq

2010-12-01 Thread Ray Brownrigg
I think both responses so far have missed the point, (assuming the O was a typo for zero). That is: > seq(0:1) [1] 1 2 when > seq(0,1) [1] 0 1 was intended. Ray Brownrigg On Wed, 01 Dec 2010, Ista Zahn wrote: > So you are warning us that you must type zero instead of the letter O > when we want

Re: [R] Minor warning about seq

2010-12-01 Thread Dieter Menne
Prof. John C Nash wrote: > > I spent more time than I should have debugging a script because I wanted >x<-seq(0,100)*0.1 > > but typed >x<-seq(O:100)*0.1 > > seq(0:100) yields 1 to 101, > Which leads us to another rule: never use a variable called "O". I remember this was a no-no eve

Re: [R] Minor warning about seq

2010-11-30 Thread Ista Zahn
So you are warning us that you must type zero instead of the letter O when we want to enter the value of zero? Seems pretty obvious... -Ista On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Prof. John C Nash wrote: > I spent more time than I should have debugging a script because I wanted >   x<-seq(0,100)*0.1