On Mar 1, 2013, at 1:56 PM, C W wrote:
> Hi list,
> I am writing several functions and running out variable names. I am using
> words such as "t", "c", "matrix" to keep the notation same as formulas I am
> using.
>
> For example I have,
>
> unnormalized <- function(t, x, y){
> val <- rnorm(t, mean=x, var=y)
> return(val)
> }
>
> metropolis <- function(t, c, x, y){
> den1 <- unnormalized(t, mean=x, sd=y)
> den2 <- unnormalized(c, mean=x, sd=y)
> if(den1 < den2)
> return(a)
> else
> return(b)
> }
>
> for(i in 1: 100){
> matrix <- c()
> matrix[i] <- metroplis(1, 2, 3, 4)
> }
> Here, I reused letter "t" and "c", and the word "matrix". Could this cause
> any potential problems?
Whatever problems you are having at the moment (and they appear to be many)
are not due to using existing function names as data-object names. You are
asked to report the error messages you get with your code problems, and those
messages I found to be reasonably informative for the first 5 errors I found.
--
David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
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