Hi, On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:10 PM, <elliot.we...@virgin.net> wrote: > I've tried the if function? Its just defining when something is even or odd?
R's help system might be useful. www.rseek.org might be useful. You haven't accomplished the second part of my response, and this isn't a homework help list, so you'll need to do your own work from here. Sarah > ------Original Message------ > From: Sarah Goslee > To: elliot.we...@virgin.net > Cc: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] Finding the median > Sent: Mar 12, 2012 15:59 > > I'd start by using if(). > > If you can convince the list that this isn't homework, you might get more > help. > > Sarah > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:15 AM, <elliot.we...@virgin.net> wrote: >> Hi just a quick question in which I must use the "function and return" part >> of R. >> >> If I was asked to define a function called "median" where the function has a >> single argument x and returns the median value of a vector. How would I go >> about saying the median = element x in terms of n (say (n + 1)/2 or whatever >> it would be) if there is an even amount of elements, or x in terms of n >> (with a different way of saying how many n) if there is an odd amount of >> elements? >> >> Much appreciated >> -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.
