My guess is that 6. comes for 6.0 - something which comes from programming languages where 6 represents 6 as integer while 6. (or 6.0) represents 6 as floating point number.
--- On Fri, 21/8/09, kfcnhl <zhengchenj...@hotmail.com> wrote: > From: kfcnhl <zhengchenj...@hotmail.com> > Subject: [R] extra . > To: r-help@r-project.org > Received: Friday, 21 August, 2009, 12:34 PM > > sigma0 <- sqrt((6. * var(maxima))/pi) > > What does the '.' do here? > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/extra-.-tp25073255p25073255.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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
