[R] Return invisible list

David Winsemius
2011-07-07T19:30:11Z

On Jul 7, 2011, at 3:00 PM, francisco.ahued wrote:

> Hi, I'm new to R. I'm trying to do some extreme value theory
analysis,
> looking at the Mean Excess Plot of a series. These are the commands
> I type
> to get the plot:
>
> x=read.table("data.txt",header=T)
> goa=(x[,3])
> meplot(goa)
>
> I can see the plot, but I would like to see the values of the x and
> y axis.
>
> According to this page
> (http://rss.acs.unt.edu/Rdoc/library/VGAM/html/meplot.html), "A list
> is
> returned invisibly with the following components.

If a function returns something invisibly, it means that you need to
assign the result to a named object, which can then be inspected.

>
> threshold  The x axis values.
> meanExcess  The y axis values. Each value is a sample mean minus a
> value u.
>
> "
>
> So my question is, how can I see (or even export) threshold and
> meanExcess?


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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT