[R] Strange integer result on Debian/amd64

[Dave Ewart]

On Wednesday, 21.03.2007 at 09:10 +0000, Dave Ewart wrote:

> However, the underlying problem that gave rise to the difficulty was as
> follows.  A colleague wishes to create a matrix, where one of the
> dimensions of the matrix is the result of the 'choose' function, i.e.
> 
>   mycols<-choose(11,6)
>   a_matrix<-matrix(0,nrow=11,ncol=mycols)
> 
> Clearly, 'ncol' casts mycols as as integer.  In this case, a_matrix has
> only 461 columns, not 462.

Ignore me, obviously one can simply do:

a_matrix<-matrix(0,nrow=11,ncol=round(mycols))

Thanks again,

Dave.
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