Your lapply is making the call runif(n=3, min=i) for i in 1:3. That runif's 3 argument is 'max', with default value 1 so that is equivalent to calling runif(n=3, min=i, max=1) When i>max, outside the domain of the family of uniform distributions, runif returns NaN's.
Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: > Could someone please explain the following? I did check bug reports, but > did not recognize the issue there. I am reluctant to call it a bug, as it > is much more likely my misunderstanding. Ergo my request for clarification: > > ## As expected: > > > lapply(1:3, rnorm, n = 3) > [[1]] > [1] 2.481575 1.998182 1.312786 > > [[2]] > [1] 2.858383 1.827863 1.699015 > > [[3]] > [1] 1.821910 2.530091 3.995677 > > > ## Unexpected by me: > > > lapply(1:3, runif, n = 3) > [[1]] > [1] 1 1 1 > > [[2]] > [1] NaN NaN NaN > > [[3]] > [1] NaN NaN NaN > > Warning messages: > 1: In FUN(X[[i]], ...) : NAs produced > 2: In FUN(X[[i]], ...) : NAs produced > > > ## But note, as expected: > > > lapply(1:3, function(x)runif(3)) > [[1]] > [1] 0.2950459 0.8490556 0.4303680 > > [[2]] > [1] 0.5961144 0.5330914 0.2363679 > > [[3]] > [1] 0.8079495 0.1431838 0.3671915 > > > > Many thanks for any clarification. > > -- Bert > > [[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. > [[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.
