[R-SIG-Finance] function for x to the power of y

[Pierre Lapointe]

What's wrong with x^y?

Example:
> 2^4
[1] 16

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Samit Jain <sjain at caa.columbia.edu> wrote:
> You can write a simple function
>
> pow = function(x,y) { x^y }
>
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Jun Zhu <junzhu98 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> Does R has a mathematical function to calculate
>> x to the power of y
>>
>> thanks,
>> Jun
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