> "Ben" == Ben Bolker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 21:40:05 -0500 writes:
Ben> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 1/8/2006 9:24 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:
>>
>>> It surprised me that prod(numeric(0)) is 1. I guess if
>>> you say (operation(nothing) == identity el
I've just had the error below while trying to install a package from
source under R2.2.1 and Windows XP. I recall encountering this
sporadically in the past. It is a pretty confusing message and took me
quite some time to figure out; I've seen queries about it on the R site
search, but couldn't fin
Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 1/8/2006 9:24 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:
>
>>It surprised me that prod(numeric(0)) is 1.
>> I guess if you say (operation(nothing) == identity
>> element) this makes sense, but ??
>
>
> What value were you expecting, or were you expecting an error? I can't
> think how
On 1/8/2006 9:24 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:
>It surprised me that prod(numeric(0)) is 1.
> I guess if you say (operation(nothing) == identity
> element) this makes sense, but ??
What value were you expecting, or were you expecting an error? I can't
think how any other value could be justified, an
It surprised me that prod(numeric(0)) is 1.
I guess if you say (operation(nothing) == identity
element) this makes sense, but ??
Looking in the code, this makes sense:
basically (s=1; for i=0 to length(x),
multiply s by x[i]) -- which comes out to 1.
What *should* prod(numeric(0)) prod
