Hi Adam,
You're in luck, arithmetic operations in R are vectorized so it does
not take any extra effort.
x <- 1:10
sum(x^2)
cheers,
Josh
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:20 PM, covfish87 <covfish87 at hotmail.co.uk>
wrote:> hi, basic question
>
> how do i write a function that sums the squares of elements in a vector of
> any length?
>
> thanks
> Adam
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