[R] First read (was: Re: Looping and paste)

[Patrick Burns]

It's very seldom that I disagree with
Bert, but here is one time.

I don't think "An Introduction to R" is
a suitable first read for people with
little computational experience.

Better (I modestly suggest) would be:

http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/hints_R_begin.html

which includes some other references.
'Hints' is imperfect and incomplete but
it suffers slightly less from the curse of
knowledge than a lot of other R documentation.

Pat

On 24/11/2011 00:15, Bert Gunter wrote:
> ... and you can of course do the assignment:
>
> Bndy<-  paste (BndY,"to",50+seq_len(BndY), "mN", sep = " ")
>
> "An Introduction to R" tells you about such fundamentals and should be
> a first read for anyone learning R.
>
> --- Bert
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Bert Gunter<bgunter at gene.com>  wrote:
>> Don't do this!  paste() is vectorized.
>>
>> paste (BndY,"to",50+seq_len(BndY), "mN", sep = " ")
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bert
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 3:31 PM, B77S<bps0002 at auburn.edu>  wrote:
>>> out<- vector("list")
>>> Ylab<- for(i in 1:length(BndY))
>>> {
>>> out[i]<- paste(BndY[i]," to ",BndY[i],"mN")
>>> }
>>>
>>> Ylab<- do.call(c, out)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> markm0705 wrote
>>>>
>>>> Dear R helpers
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to make up some labels for plot from this vector
>>>>
>>>> BndY<-seq(from = 18900,to= 19700, by = 50)
>>>>
>>>> using
>>>>
>>>> Ylab<-for(i in BndY) {c((paste(i," to ",i+50,"mN")))}
>>>>
>>>> but the vector created is NULL
>>>>
>>>> However if i use
>>>>
>>>> for(i in BndY) {print(c(paste(i," to ",i+50,"mN")))}
>>>>
>>>> I can see the for loop is making the labels I'm looking for but not sure
>>>> on my error in assigning them to a vector
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Bert Gunter
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>>
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>>
>
>
>

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