[R] modifying a vector

[A.J. Rossini]

>>>>> "tim" == Tim Wilson <wilson at visi.com> writes:

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

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

Note that "_" is assignment in S (and hence R, sigh...).  



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

iq.prime <- iq + 20

# "." is a separation character, as well as having other overloaded
# meanings.

    >> iq_prime
    >> t(dstats(iq))
    tim>        mean     sd variance    min     max unique   n miss
    tim>        skewness kurtosis
    tim> [1,] 98.628 14.223  202.302 69.079 141.294    100 100    0
    tim>       0.3    0.191

best,
-tony

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