On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, rkevinbur...@charter.net wrote:
I am having a hard time understanding what is happening with ifelse.
Let me illustrate:
h <- numeric(5)
p <- 1:5
j <- floor(j)
And j is 0:4 + epsilon , where 0 <= epsilon < 1, evidently.
x <- 1:1000
ifelse(h == 0, x[j+2], 1:5)
[1] 2 3 4 5 6
My question is, "shouldn't this be retruning 25 numbers?"
No. It should be
A vector of the same length and attributes (including class) as
test and data values from the values of yes or no
according to ?ifelse, and 'test' is what you have as 'h'
Consider
z <- as.data.frame( diag(2 ) )
ifelse(z == 0, letters , 1:5)
V1 V2
[1,] "1" "c"
[2,] "b" "4"
all args have different lengths and classes. But the result has those of
the 'test' arg.
It seems that the ifelse should check 5 values of h for zero. For each
of the 5 values I am thinking it should return an array of 5 (x[j+2] if
h[index] == 0). Since the dimension of h is 5 that would mean 25 values.
h has no attributes, therefore no 'dimension'
HTH,
Chuck
But that isn't what is being returned.Something about this that I don't
understand. Please help my ignorance.
Thank you.
Kevin
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