[R] Arguments become nonnumeric

[Mag. Ferri Leberl]

Thank you, this seems promissing. How can I address then a certain
element e.g. to add the second and the third component?
Faithfully,
Mag. Ferri Leberl



Am Sonntag, den 09.12.2007, 07:11 -0800 schrieb jim holtman:
> You program contains:
> 
> de.dd<-c("Dresden",51,2,13,44)
> 
> and since you are mixing characters with numerics and putting them
> into a single vector, the data is coerced to a common data type, which
> in this case is numeric.  What are you trying to do?  Do you want to
> use a list?
> 
> > de.dd
> [1] "Dresden" "51"      "2"       "13"      "44"
> > de.dd<-list("Dresden",51,2,13,44)
> > de.dd
> [[1]]
> [1] "Dresden"
> 
> [[2]]
> [1] 51
> 
> [[3]]
> [1] 2
> 
> [[4]]
> [1] 13
> 
> [[5]]
> [1] 44
> 
> A list will maintain the mode of each element.
> 
> On Dec 9, 2007 6:14 AM, Mag. Ferri Leberl <ferri.leberl at gmx.at> wrote:
> > Dear Everybody,
> > Enclosed are the tiny beginning of a program and its output.
> > As a pity, if I load the image <load("kanal.RData")> the elements of
> > <de.dd> are non numerical; <de.dd[2]+de.dd[3]> returns <Fehler in
> > de.dd[2] + de.dd[3] : nicht-numerisches Argument für binären Operator>.
> > How can I keep the numbers numerical?
> > Thank you in advance.
> > hopefully,
> > Mag. Ferri Leberl
> >
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