Ow ow ow. I can't stand it any longer! "Weird" is one of those weird exceptions in English to the "i before e except after c" rule and is spelled "W-E-I-R-D" .
In case you're interested, the other exceptions are seize, inveigle , either, leisure, neither. :-( -- Bert Gunter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Lumley Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] WIERD: Basic computing in R This is FAQ 7.33 -thomas On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can someone please enlighten me as to why the following happens? >> -2.7^8.6 > [1] -5125.407 > >> p<- -2.7 >> q<- 8.6 >> p^q > [1] NaN > R seems perfectly able to calculate -2.7^8.6, but fails when the exact same values are assigned to variables and then the computation is repeated. > Thanks in advance for any suggetsions. > Kris. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle ______________________________________________ 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.
