[R] problem with max in a function

[stephen sefick]

Here is a striped down example that is not working because of the 1.00
to 1.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

measure_bkf <- (structure(list(measurment_num = c(0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6,
0.8, 1, 1.2,
1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 2, 2.2, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6, 2.8), bankfull_depths_m = c(-0.15,
-0.09, -0.00999999999999998, 0.06, 0.13, 0.26, 0.36, 0.46, 0.56,
0.61, 0.85, 0.93, 0.93, 0.97, 1, 1)), .Names = c("measurment_num",
"bankfull_depths_m"), row.names = c(32L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L,
6L, 7L, 8L, 9L, 10L, 11L, 29L, 12L, 13L, 14L), class = "data.frame"))



measure_bkf_not_zero <- measure_bkf[grep("[^0]",
measure_bkf[,"bankfull_depths_m"]),]

bkf_min <- grep(min(measure_bkf_not_zero[,"bankfull_depths_m"]),
measure_bkf_not_zero[,"bankfull_depths_m"])

bkf_max <- grep(max(measure_bkf_not_zero[,"bankfull_depths_m"]),
measure_bkf_not_zero[,"bankfull_depths_m"])

bkf_min <- ifelse(length(bkf_min)>1, bkf_min[1], bkf_min)
bkf_max <- ifelse(length(bkf_max)>1, bkf_max[1], bkf_max)

#s <- with(measure_bkf_not_zero, approx(measurment_num,
bankfull_depths_m,
xout=seq(measure_bkf_not_zero[bkf_min,"measurment_num"],
measure_bkf_not_zero[bkf_max,"measurment_num"], length=2000)))
#int_bkf <- with(s, x[which.min(y[y>0])])

s <- with(measure_bkf_not_zero[bkf_min:bkf_max,],
approxfun(bankfull_depths_m, measurment_num), ties=mean)

int_bkf <- s(0)



On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:28 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Sep 7, 2010, at 9:06 PM, stephen sefick wrote:
>
>> s <- 1.00
>> max(s)
>
>> sprintf("%.2f", max(s))
> [1] "1.00"     @ as a string/character object
>>
>> returns 1
>>
>> is there anyway that I can get it to return 1.00.  I am using the
>> results of this max statement in a grep statement and it returns the
>> wrong numbers,  I will provide more information and code if it would
>> make more sense in context.
>>
>> -- Stephen Sefick
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-- 
Stephen Sefick
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| Auburn University                                   |
| Department of Biological Sciences           |
| 331 Funchess Hall                                  |
| Auburn, Alabama                                   |
| 36849                                                    |
|___________________________________|
| sas0025 at auburn.edu                             |
| http://www.auburn.edu/~sas0025             |
|___________________________________|

Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
make us feel like gods.  We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
annoying little problems of being mammals.

                                -K. Mullis

"A big computer, a complex algorithm and a long time does not equal science."

                              -Robert Gentleman