[R] Can't figure out warning message

[Berton Gunter]

Works fine for me with no warning messages. R for Windows 2.2.0. Try
upgrading (but I don't see why you get the warning either).

Try changing & to && though, as you don't need to vectorize the conjunction.

-- Bert Gunter
Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics
South San Francisco, CA
 
"The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning
process."  - George E. P. Box
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Ravi Varadhan
> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 3:17 PM
> To: 'RHelp'
> Subject: [R] Can't figure out warning message
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I apologize for the previous posting, where the message was 
> not formatted
> properly.  Here is a better version:
> 
>  
> 
> I have written the following function to check whether a 
> vector has elements
> satisfying monotonicity.
> 
>  
> 
> is.monotone <- function(vec, increase=T){
> 
> ans <- TRUE
> 
> vec.nomis <- vec[!is.na(vec)]
> 
> if (increase & any(diff(vec.nomis,1) < 0, na.rm=T)) ans <- FALSE
> 
> if (!increase & any(diff(vec.nomis,1) > 0, na.rm=T)) ans <- FALSE
> 
> ans
> 
> }
> 
>  
> 
> This works correctly, but I get this error message as below.
> 
>  
> 
> > x <- 2:10
> 
> > is.monotone(x)
> 
> [1] TRUE
> 
> Warning messages:
> 
> 1: the condition has length > 1 and only the first element 
> will be used in:
> if (increase & any(diff(vec.nomis, 1) < 0, na.rm = T)) ans <- FALSE
> 
> 2: the condition has length > 1 and only the first element 
> will be used in:
> if (!increase & any(diff(vec.nomis, 1) > 0, na.rm = T)) ans <- FALSE 
> 
> > 
> 
>  
> 
> I am unable to see why the condition should have a length 
> greater than 1,
> since "any" should give me a single logical value.  
> 
>  
> 
> Can any one tell me what is going on here?  (I am using 
> version 2.1.1 on
> Windows).
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks very much,
> 
> Ravi.
> 
>  
> 
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> 
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> 
> Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
> 
> Johns Hopkins University
> 
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