[R] get the sign of a value

[MacQueen, Don]

And as a footnote to the other replies, see

   help('Math',package='base')

R's online help has a number of topics that are broader than that of a
single function, and that relatively new useRs might not have seen yet.

Examples include
  ?Distributions (compare with ?rnorm)
and
  ?Startup


-Don

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Don MacQueen

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On 3/14/13 12:41 PM, "Dimitri Liakhovitski"
<dimitri.liakhovitski at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hello! Can't figure it out - hope it's simple:
>
># I have some value (can be anything), e.g.:
>x = 12
># I'd like it to become 1.
>
># If the value is negative (again, it can be anything), e.g.:
>y = -12
># I'd like it to become -1.
>
>How could I do it?
>Thanks a lot!
>
>-- 
>Dimitri Liakhovitski
>
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