[R] The greatest common divisor between more than two integers

[Atte Tenkanen]

Thanks! I try that. There is in some packege such a function.

Atte

> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Atte Tenkanen<attenka at utu.fi> wrote:
> 
> > Do somebody know if there is a function in R which  computes the 
> greatest common divisor between several (more than two) integers?
> 
> Is there a function for computing the greatest common divisor of *two*
> numbers? I can't find one, but assume that there is such a function,
> and call it gcd. Then you could define a recursive function to do the
> job. Something like
> 
> new_gcd = function(v)
> {
>    if (length(v)==2) return(gcd(v))
>    else return (new_gcd(v[1],new_gcd(v[2:length(v)]))
> }
> 
> where v is a vector containing the numbers you want to calculate the
> greatest common divisor of.
> 
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> Michael Knudsen
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