I would greatly appreciate if you could let me know why the R does not make the right computations in the case below. Waiting for your reply Jorge Colaço
R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14) -- "Fire Safety" Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R. > X<-matrix(c(-1,0,1,-1,1,0, + 0,0,1,1,1,-1, + -1,0,-1,1,0,1, + 1,1,-1,-1,0,0, + 0,0,1,1,-1,1),nrow=5,ncol=6,byrow=T) > mean<-c(mean(X[,1]),mean(X[,2]),mean(X[,3]),mean(X[,4]),mean(X[,5]),mean(X[,6])) > mean [1] -0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 > X-mean [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [1,] -0.8 -0.2 0.8 -1.2 0.8 -0.2 [2,] -0.2 0.2 0.8 0.8 0.8 -1.2 [3,] -1.2 -0.2 -0.8 0.8 -0.2 0.8 [4,] 0.8 0.8 -1.2 -0.8 -0.2 -0.2 [5,] -0.2 -0.2 0.8 0.8 -0.8 0.8 > Right Result Should Be: ans = -0.80000 -0.20000 0.80000 -1.20000 0.80000 -0.20000 0.20000 -0.20000 0.80000 0.80000 0.80000 -1.20000 -0.80000 -0.20000 -1.20000 0.80000 -0.20000 0.80000 1.20000 0.80000 -1.20000 -1.20000 -0.20000 -0.20000 0.20000 -0.20000 0.80000 0.80000 -1.20000 0.80000 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.