[R] Running sum

[Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen]

Marc Schwartz wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 16:44 -0600, hadley wickham wrote:
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>>Perhaps I'm missing something, but isn't the maximum of the cumulative
>>sum simply the last value, ie. sum(x)?
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>>Hadley
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>Indeed!
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>And...going back to Sean's original post he did write:
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>"I just need max(Y)."
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>Thus, a whole group of us (independently) managed to over-engineer the
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Please, Please, please, ... was it ever said that the numbers was only 
positive?

Kjetil

>solution. 
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>Presuming of course, that Sean does not require the entire cumulative
>sum vector for other purposes.
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>I wonder what that says about human cognition....
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>Thanks,
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>Marc
><Cleaning his bi-focals...>
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