[R] Searching for antilog function

[Heather J. Branton]

Yes! Somehow I must have made an entry error when I tried that before as 
I was getting something completely different!

Thank you.

...heather

Liaw, Andy wrote:

>What's wrong with log2()?
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>>log2(16)
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>[1] 4
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>Isn't that exactly what you asked for?
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>Andy
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>>From: Heather J. Branton
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>>Dear R-users,
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>>I have a basic question about how to determine the antilog of 
>>a variable.
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>>Say I have some number, x, which is a factor of 2 such that x 
>>= 2^y. I 
>>want to figure out what y is, i.e. I am looking for the 
>>antilog base 2 of x.
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>>I have found log2 in the Reference Manual. But I am struggling how to 
>>get the antilog of that.
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>>Any help will be appreciated!
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>> > version
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>>platform i386-pc-mingw32
>>arch     i386          
>>os       mingw32       
>>system   i386, mingw32 
>>status                 
>>major    1             
>>minor    9.1           
>>year     2004          
>>month    06            
>>day      21            
>>language R
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>>...heather
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