[R] Why cannot get the expected values in my function

[David Winsemius]

On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:07 PM, rusers.sh wrote:

> Hi,
>  In the following function, i hope to save my simulated data into the
> "result" dataset, but why the final "result" dataset seems not to be
> generated.


> #Function
> simdata<-function (nsim) {

# Instead why not:
cbind(x=runif(nsim), y=runif(nsim) )
>  }
>
> #simulation
>> simdata(10)  #correct result
>              x           y
> [1,] 0.2655087 0.372123900
> [2,] 0.1848823 0.702374036
> [3,] 0.1680415 0.807516399
> [4,] 0.5858003 0.008945796
> [5,] 0.2002145 0.685218596
> [6,] 0.6062683 0.937641973
> [7,] 0.9889093 0.397745453
> [8,] 0.4662952 0.207823317
> [9,] 0.2216014 0.024233910
> [10,] 0.5074782 0.306768506
>  But, the dataset "result" wasnot assigned the above values. What is  
> the
> problem?
>> result  #wrong result??
>       x  y
> [1,] NA NA
> [2,] NA NA
> [3,] NA NA
> [4,] NA NA
> [5,] NA NA
> [6,] NA NA
> [7,] NA NA
> [8,] NA NA
> [9,] NA NA
> [10,] NA NA
>>
> Thanks a lot.
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> Jane Chang
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David Winsemius, MD
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