R help - Mar 2012 - Unexpected input in function

Hi,

Although the following statements work individually in R, they produce an error
if placed inside a function as below:

fsubt <- function(a) {
b <- 1:length(a)
b-a
}

The error message is:

Error: unexpected input in:
"b <- 1:length(a)
b-"

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jack

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I think you'll need to provide a reproducible example, because your
code works for me:
> fsubt <- function(a) {
+ b <- 1:length(a)
+ b-a
+ }
>
>
> fsubt(1:5)
[1] 0 0 0 0 0
>
> fsubt(sample(1:10))
 [1] -8 -6  1  1 -1  5  3  1  4  0
>
> fsubt(2)
[1] -1


On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Schryver, Jack C. <schryverjc at
ornl.gov> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Although the following statements work individually in R, they produce an
error if placed inside a function as below:
>
> fsubt <- function(a) {
> b <- 1:length(a)
> b-a
> }
>
> The error message is:
>
> Error: unexpected input in:
> "b <- 1:length(a)
> b-"
>
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Jack
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