Hi. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Ted Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28-Jul-08 17:52:31, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: >> Use '&' for vectors and '&&' for scalars. Ditto applies to the OR >> operator(s). /Henrik > > What's wrong with using "&" for scalars? Surely it gives the > correct answer? Maybe it's simply a bit slower, or something?
I don't know the details, but help("&&") says: "The operators '!', '&' and '|' are generic functions[...]". So, yes, you pay the unnecessary cost for dispatching, which you want to avoid for such basic operations. Moreover, personally I would consider it good programming practice to use '&&' when you really mean to. I'd rather see if (eventA && eventB) { ... } than if (eventA & eventB) { ... } even if they two objects are scalars. The latter one tells me that the developer might not know what s/he's doing. I don't if 'codeTools' already now picks on the latter, but it is not hard to imagine that it will one day. My $0.02 Henrik > > Ted. > >> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Wade Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am trying to convert geometric means in a matrix to cover classes. >>> My >>> values are as such: >>> >>> perc<-c(0,0.025136418, 0.316227766, 1.414213562,3.16227766, >>> 7.071067812, >>> 15.8113883, 35.35533906, 61.23724357, 84.40971508, 97.46794345) >>> cover<-c(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) >>> >>> This is what I am trying to accomplish >>> >>> veg_mean[veg_mean>0 && veg_mean < .1] <- 1 >>> veg_mean[veg_mean>= .1 && veg_mean < 1.0] <- 2 >>> veg_mean[veg_mean>=1.0 && veg_mean < 2.0] <- 3 >>> veg_mean[veg_mean>=2.0 && veg_mean < 5.0] <- 4 >>> veg_mean[veg_mean>= 5.0 && veg_mean < 10.0] <- 5 >>> veg_mean[veg_mean>= 10.0 && veg_mean < 25] <- 6 >>> veg_mean[veg_mean>= 25.0 && veg_mean < 50.0] <- 7 >>> veg_mean[veg_mean>=50.0 && veg_mean < 75.0] <- 8 >>> veg_mean[veg_mean>= 75.0 && veg_mean < 95.0 ] <- 9 >>> veg_mean[veg_mean>= 95.0 && veg_mean <= 100] <- 10 >>> veg_mean[veg_mean> 100] <- NA >>> >>> where values are assigned based on the geometric means. However, I >>> think >>> that my syntax for the && operator is wrong and I can't find a >>> reference to >>> proper syntax. I basically want to "bin" the geometric means. >>> >>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Wade >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 > Date: 28-Jul-08 Time: 19:21:08 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________ > 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.