R devel - May 2002 - Use of 'any' in 3.2.1 if ... else example is incorrect (PR#1576)

On Mon, 20 May 2002 dciemo@excite.com wrote:
> Full_Name: David Ciemiewicz
> Version: 1.3.1
> OS: Windows 2000
> Submission from: (NULL) (63.192.218.208)
>
>
> In the R Language Manual (R-lang.pdf), section 3.2.1 "if", there
is an example
> expression which uses the function "any".
>
> > if( any(x) <= 0 ) y <- log(1+x) else y <- log(x)
> > y <- if( any(x)<= 0 ) log(1+x) else log(x)
>
> However, the parenthesis are incorrect in the conditional part of the if.
>
> It should be:
>
>     if ( any(x <= 0) ) y <- log(1+x) else y <- log(x)
>     y <- if ( any(x <= 0) ) log(1+x) else log(x)
Yes, fixed for 1.5.1, thanks.
> However, if we are really being pedantic, this is still not correct.  If
any
> values of x are <= -1, you will still get an error.
But that may be the intention: the intention is not explained.  Or it may
be already known that x > -1.

Not that log(0) is not an error (it is -Inf) so only x < -1 would generate
an error.
> I'm still too new to R to figure out how to get what I thing I really
want which
> would set all values less than or equal to zero to be 1.
x[x <= 0] <- 1



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