[R-sig-teaching] Plot f(x) = x^(1/5)

[jim holtman]

System is working correctly.  A negative number cannot be raised to a
fractional power:

> (-2)^(1/5)
[1] NaN




Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru

What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Steven Stoline <sstoline at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All:
>
>
> I am trying to plot the function f(x) = x^(1/5) for x=seq(-2,2,0.01). It
> give me only the plot of f(x) for the positive part of x. I checked the
> values of f(x), it is NaN for all negative values of x.
>
> *this is my code:*
>
>
> x<-seq(-2,2,0.01)
> y<- (x)^(1/5)
> plot(x,y, type="l", lwd=3, xlab = " ", ylab = " ", col="blue")
> abline(v=0, col="gray", lty=2, lwd=3)
> abline(h=0, col="gray", lty=2, lwd=3)
>
>
>
> any help will be appreciated.
>
>
> with many thanks
> steve
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> Steven M. Stoline
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> sstoline at gmail.com
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