Notice that >mone-3 [1] -8.881784e-16
on my machine so, no, mone is actually less than 3, which truncates to 2. This is an overcomplicated version of R FAQ 7.31, which is mentioned in the posting guide referenced at the end of every R-help message. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. li li <hannah....@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all. I was having some trouble with a for loop and I found the problem is the following. Does anyone have some idea why I got the following R result? Since mone is equal to 3, why mu1 only have 2 components? library(MASS) > p0 <- seq(0.1, 0.9,by=0.1) > m <- 10 > > > p0 <- p0[7] > > ## data generation > > mzero <- p0*m > mone <- m-mzero > mu1 <- rnorm(mone, 0,1) > mu <- c(rep(0,mzero), mu1) > > var <- diag(m) > zv <- mvrnorm(n, mu, var) Error in mvrnorm(n, mu, var) : incompatible arguments > mone [1] 3 > mu1 [1] -0.08802108 0.77904786 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]_____________________________________________ 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.