Hi Adam, You're in luck, arithmetic operations in R are vectorized so it does not take any extra effort.
x <- 1:10 sum(x^2) cheers, Josh On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:20 PM, covfish87 <covfis...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > hi, basic question > > how do i write a function that sums the squares of elements in a vector of > any length? > > thanks > Adam > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/sum-of-squares-function-tp4037402p4037402.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology Programmer Analyst II, ATS Statistical Consulting Group University of California, Los Angeles https://joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ 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.
