Are you getting caught on order of operations? Note that unary minus has lower precedence than exponentiation (as it does in math) so
-2.5^(-2.4) is x <- 2.5^(-2.4) -x Otherwise, I'm not at all sure what your question is: can you give an example of what you think you should get (and how to get it) and what R is giving you instead? Michael On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:30 PM, casperyc <caspe...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > I know what complex number are, but I am not sure what you meant by that? > > > ##############CODES########### >> 2.5^(-2.4) > [1] 0.1109032 >> -2.5^(-2.4) > [1] -0.1109032 > ##############CODES########### > > works fine. > > Negative powers mean they take the reciprocal and as far as I am concerned, > real^real is just a real number. > > Am I mistaking something basic? > > Thanks. > > Casper > > ----- > ###################### > PhD candidate in Statistics > Big R Fan > Big LEGO Fan > Big sTaTs Fan > ###################### > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/problem-with-Gauss-Hermite-x-and-w-tp4622115p4624395.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.
