[R] A coding question involving variable assignments

[xpRt.wannabe]

Ted and List,

In your code that produced 'mx', you dropped sum() from my original
code though.  As a result, the 10 x 5 max's are of the same value. 
Unfortunately, that's not what I need.


On 8/11/05, ecatchpole <e.catchpole at adfa.edu.au> wrote:
> On 12/08/05 05:55,  xpRt.wannabe wrote,:
> > Dear List,
> >
> > I have the following code that does what I want:
> >
> > x <- replicate(5,replicate(10,sum(rnorm(rpois(1,10)))))
> >
> > How might one change it such that the maximum value generated by
> > rnorm(rpois(1,10)) can be retrieved for later use?
> 
> set.seed(99)
> x <- replicate(5,replicate(10,sum(rnorm(rpois(1,10)))))
> set.seed(99)
> mx <- replicate(5,replicate(10,max(rnorm(rpois(1,10)))))
> 
> should work?
> 
> Ted.
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