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var(r) BTW, it is better to use more than single letters in name your objects to reduce the chance of conflicting with a standard R object. HTH ... Peter Alspach > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Chloe Smith > Sent: Thursday, 21 May 2009 12:33 p.m. > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Problems with sample variance > > > Dear R users, > > I am a beginner to R. I generated 1000 samples with 15 data > in each sample > > I tried finding the variance for each sample > > I used the code: > > m=1000;n=15 > > r<-rnorm(15000) > > for(i in 1:m){ > x=data[,i] > v=var(x)} > > what I got was just the variance for the last sample i.e. the > 1000th sample > > but what I want is 1000 variance. > > Does anyone know what I did wrong? > > Thanks > > Chloe Smith > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Problems-with-sample-variance-tp23645919 > p23645919.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > The contents of this e-mail are confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disseminate, distribute or reproduce all or any part of this e-mail or attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete all material pertaining to this e-mail. Any opinion or views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender and may not represent those of The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited. ______________________________________________ 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.
