Oh...that does make more sense -- seemed like a rather odd choice of variable name.
Michael On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > On 29/02/2012 13:24, R. Michael Weylandt wrote: >> >> Change the name to something syntactically valid? The problem is that >> you can't (well, you can, but it's ill advised) have variable names >> beginning with numbers. They don't seem to be used much so there >> won't be much trouble in that. > > > I think that 2.0d0 is someone translating C into R. Just use 2 . In R, 2 is > a double precision floating-point constant: in C and (recent S-PLUS) it is > integer and you need to use 2.0 . > >> Michael >> >> 2012/2/29 Freddy Hernández<fhern...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> I have a function written for Splus, when I run it in R I obtain get an >>> error >>> because the function has the elements "0.d0" and "2.d0". How can I change >>> it >>> to run in R? >>> >>> The function can be found in page 230 from >>> http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~mchung/teaching/stat471/stat_computing.pdf >>> >>> Function is as follows: >>> >>> gauher<- function(n) {# Gauss-Hermite: returns x,w so that >>> #\int_-\infty^\infty exp(-x^2) f(x) dx \doteq \sum w_i f(x_i) >>> EPS<- 3.e-14 >>> PIM4<- .7511255444649425D0 >>> MAXIT<- 10 >>> m<- trunc((n+1)/2) >>> x<- w<- rep(-1,n) >>> for (i in 1:m) { >>> if (i==1) { >>> z<- sqrt(2*n+1)-1.85575*(2*n+1)^(-.16667) >>> } else if(i==2) { >>> z<- z-1.14*n^.426/z >>> } else if (i==3) { >>> z<- 1.86*z-.86*x[1] >>> } else if (i==4) { >>> z<- 1.91*z-.91*x[2] >>> } else { >>> z<- 2.*z-x[i-2] >>> } >>> for (its in 1:MAXIT) { >>> p1<- PIM4 >>> p2<- 0.d0 >>> for (j in 1:n) { >>> p3<- p2 >>> p2<- p1 >>> p1<- z*sqrt(2.d0/j)*p2-sqrt((j-1)/j)*p3 >>> } >>> pp<- sqrt(2.d0*n)*p2 >>> z1<- z >>> z<- z1-p1/pp >>> if(abs(z-z1)<= EPS) break >>> } >>> x[i]<- z >>> x[n+1-i]<- -z >>> w[i]<- 2/(pp*pp) >>> w[n+1-i]<- w[i] >>> } >>> list(x=x,w=w) >>> } >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Converting-a-function-from-Splus-to-R-tp4431416p4431416.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. >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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.