[R] boot question

[Andrew Robinson]

You have to let boot pass the index for selection to the function as well.  
So, for example, try:

boot.mean <- function(data, index)
	mean(data[index])

results <- boot(x, boot.mean, R=5)


Andrew.

On Thursday 01 April 2004 14:19, Morris, Jeffrey [OCDUS] wrote:
> What in the world am I missing??
>
> > x<-rnorm(20)
> >
> > mean(x)
>
> [1] -0.2272851
>
> > results<-boot(x,mean,R=5)
> >
> > results[2]
>
> $t
>            [,1]
> [1,] -0.2294562
> [2,] -0.2294562
> [3,] -0.2294562
> [4,] -0.2294562
> [5,] -0.2294562
>
> Jeff Morris
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