Hi [R-2.6.0, macOSX 10.4.10].
The helppage says that rowSums() and colSums() are equivalent to 'apply' with 'FUN = sum'. But I came across this: > a <- matrix(1:30,5,6) > is.integer(apply(a,1,sum)) [1] TRUE > is.integer(rowSums(a)) [1] FALSE > so rowSums() returns a float. Why is this? -- Robin Hankin Uncertainty Analyst National Oceanography Centre, Southampton European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK tel 023-8059-7743 ______________________________________________ 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.
