On Jun 19, 2013, at 6:27 PM, jim holtman wrote:
> 'a' and 'b' are vectors of length 100, so the sum of them would also
> produce a vector of 100.
Just to (hopefully) clarify, R code `sum(z)` would be a vector of length:1 but
`z` which is _not_ `sum(z)` but rather `x+y` would be length:100.
--
David.
> So in one case, your code should look like this:
>
>> a<-replicate(5, rnorm(20))
>> b<-replicate(5, rnorm(20))
>>
>> xyz<-function(x,y){
> + z<-x+y
> + print(paste("the sum of", x, "and", y,"is", z, sep=" "))
> + }
>>
>> xyz(a,b)
> [1] "the sum of 0.078437532748926 and 1.42398359867007 is 1.502421131419"
>
> [2] "the sum of -0.779261070429696 and 0.484730511200338 is
> -0.294530559229357"
> [3] "the sum of 0.16655966873187 and 0.349236445934426 is
> 0.515796114666296"
> [4] "the sum of 0.265324569774749 and 0.860124249616191 is
> 1.12544881939094"
> [5] "the sum of 0.890780709620268 and 0.404611144608053 is
> 1.29539185422832"
> [6] "the sum of -0.467888369466512 and 0.367044921399527 is
> -0.100843448066985"
> [7] "the sum of 0.758374556806851 and -1.51919904950798 is
> -0.760824492701126"
> .........
>
> Is this your expected output? If not, give a clear example of what you are
> expecting. Could it be:
>
>> sum(a + b)
> [1] 16.90667
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Thomas Parr <thomas.p...@maine.edu> wrote:
>
>> I am writing a function and I would like to return the name of a data frame
>> in a paste call, but I can't figure out how to just get the name. The names
>> of the data frames used, won't be the same each time. I have to be
>> overlooking the obvious.
>>
>> #For example:
>>
>> a<-replicate(5, rnorm(20))
>> b<-replicate(5, rnorm(20))
>>
>> xyz<-function(x,y){
>> z<-x+y
>> print(paste("the sum of", x, "and", y,"is", sep=" "))
>> z
>> }
>>
>> xyz(a,b)
>>
>> #That function should return:
>>
>>> "the sum of a and b is:"
>>> .and some data.
>>
>> Not surprisingly, it returns all the data in the data frame.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Thomas
>>
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>
>
>
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>
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