[R] How to use ifelse without invoking warnings

[John Fox]

Dear Ravi,

It's already been suggested that you could disable warnings, but that's 
risky in case there's a warning that you didn't anticipate. Here's a 
different approach:

 > kk <- k[k >= -1 & k <= n]
 > ans <- numeric(length(k))
 > ans[k > n] <- 1
 > ans[k >= -1 & k <= n] <- pbeta(p, kk + 1, n - kk, lower.tail=FALSE)
 > ans
[1] 0.000000000 0.006821826 0.254991551 1.000000000

BTW, I don't think that you mentioned that p = 0.3, but that seems 
apparent from the output you showed.

I hope this helps,
  John

-- 
John Fox, Professor Emeritus
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
web: https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/

On 2021-10-07 12:29 p.m., Ravi Varadhan via R-help wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to execute the following vectorized calculation:
> 
>    ans <- ifelse (k >= -1 & k <= n, pbeta(p, k+1, n-k, lower.tail = FALSE), ifelse (k < -1, 0, 1) )
> 
> For example:
> 
> 
>> k <- c(-1.2,-0.5, 1.5, 10.4)
>> n <- 10
>> ans <- ifelse (k >= -1 & k <= n, pbeta(p,k+1,n-k,lower.tail=FALSE), ifelse (k < -1, 0, 1) )
> Warning message:
> In pbeta(p, k + 1, n - k, lower.tail = FALSE) : NaNs produced
>> print(ans)
> [1] 0.000000000 0.006821826 0.254991551 1.000000000
> 
> The answer is correct.  However, I would like to eliminate the annoying warnings.  Is there a better way to do this?
> 
> Thank you,
> Ravi
> 
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