[R] modifying a vector

[Tim Wilson]

Hello everyone,

Thanks to all who offered suggestions after my initial query to the list.
I've been busy trying to absorb the docs as fast as possible, but this
little thing has me stumped for the moment.

I'm creating a random sample of 100 item and saving it to a vector named
'iq'. I'd like to create a second vector (iq_prime, say) by adding 20 to
each element of the 'iq' vector. Here's what I've tried.

> iq <- rnorm(100, 80, 15)
> t(dstats(iq))  # Thanks Brett Magill
       mean     sd variance    min     max unique   n miss skewness
       kurtosis
[1,] 78.628 14.223  202.302 49.079 121.294    100 100    0
       0.3    0.191
> iq_prime <- sapply(iq, function(x)x+20)
> iq_prime
> t(dstats(iq))
       mean     sd variance    min     max unique   n miss
       skewness kurtosis
[1,] 98.628 14.223  202.302 69.079 141.294    100 100    0
      0.3    0.191

Nothing is being done with 'iq_prime' apparently, but 'iq' gets changed.
Any suggestions? I guess I understand that the function is being run on
'iq', but why doesn't the vector get saved as 'iq_prime'? And how would
I do this without modifying 'iq'?

-Tim

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