On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Mark Knecht<markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Jason Rupert<jasonkrup...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> Maybe there is a great website out there or white paper that discusses this >> but again my Google skills (or lack there of) let me down. >> >> I would like to know the best way to export several doubles from a function, >> where the doubles are not an array. >> >> Here is a contrived function similar to my needs: >> >> multipleoutput<-function(x) >> { >> squared<-x^2 >> cubed<-x^3 >> exponentioal<-exp(x) >> factorialVal<-factorial(x) >> >> } >> >> Thanks again for all your help. >>
<SNIP> This version runs a bit better than my last and I find it a bit more readable, but there's a warning for whatever the first computation is inside the function that I'd like to understand. - Mark multipleoutput <- function(x) { answer = c("Squ"=0,"Cub"=0,"Exp"=0,"Fac"=0) answer$Squ=x^2 answer$Cub<-x^3 answer$Exp<-exp(x) answer$Fac<-factorial(x) return(answer) } X = data.frame("Squared"=0,"Cubed"=0,"Exp"=0,"Fac"=0) X mode(X) names(X) X[1,] <- multipleoutput(2) X class(X) <PRODUCES> > multipleoutput <- function(x) { + answer = c("Squ"=0,"Cub"=0,"Exp"=0,"Fac"=0) + answer$Squ=x^2 + answer$Cub<-x^3 + answer$Exp<-exp(x) + answer$Fac<-factorial(x) + return(answer) + } > > X = data.frame("Squared"=0,"Cubed"=0,"Exp"=0,"Fac"=0) > X Squared Cubed Exp Fac 1 0 0 0 0 > mode(X) [1] "list" > names(X) [1] "Squared" "Cubed" "Exp" "Fac" > > X[1,] <- multipleoutput(2) Warning message: In answer$Squ = x^2 : Coercing LHS to a list > > X Squared Cubed Exp Fac 1 4 8 7.389056 2 > class(X) [1] "data.frame" > > > ______________________________________________ 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.