[R] runmax function only for positive numbers?
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Wed Aug 12 10:39:52 CEST 2009
Jiucang Hao wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I did a google search and could not find the answer. Thus I post this
> message. I found runmax only work for positive numbers.
> x = rep(-1,10)
> runmax(x,3)
>
> x = rep(0, 10)
> runmax(x,3)
>
> for 32-bit R, i got very small numbers: 2.121996e-314
> for 64-bit R, i got NaN.
>
> Is it a bug in runmax? or should this be included in the documentation that
> runmax only for positive numbers?
>
> however, we do have a workaround -- runmin works, thus we can do y =
> -runmin(-x,3).
>
You are talking about runmax in the caTools package? You should let the
maintainer know. I've cc'd him in this message.
Duncan Murdoch
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