similar to: (-8)^(1/3) == NaN?

I am debugging some code and found a function that returns and error most of the time. I have issolated the problem to when it raises an argument to the 1/3 power but for the life of me I can not figure out why it is not working. i have gone through the FAQs and have found nothing (not to say I might have missed something). I am highly embarrased with my inability find the problem (my face is

I tried downloading R-2.7.2 (http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/windows/base/R-2.7.2-win32.exe, both from Berkeley and cran) and both times I got a warning from Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus (version 7.1.710) that the Win32/Adclicker.JO trojan was detected: The Win32/Adclicker.JO was detected in C:\USERS\USER\APPDATA\LOCAL\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET

Dear all I've got stuck when trying to replace values in a vector by selecting replacements from a replacement table. I'm trying to use only base functions. Here's a dummy example: > (x <- rep(letters,2)) [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f" "g" "h" "i" "j" "k" "l"

Dear R developers, is that right? > -27^(1/3) [1] -3 > c(-27,27)^(1/3) [1] NaN 3 i'm using sign( c(-27,27) ) * abs( c(-27,27)) ^(1/3) , thanks [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi why I can't do this? m<-c(1,-2,3) m^2.1 with a negative number in it ,but I can do this to a single negative number like -2^2.1~ Thank you ~ JIngsi [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I had a question about the basic power functions in R. For example from the R console I enter: -1 ^ 2 [1] -1 but also -1^3 [1] -1 -0.1^2 [1] -0.01 Normally pow(-1, 2) return either -Infinity or NaN. Has R taken over the math functions? If so I would think that -1^2 is 1 not -1 and -0.1^2 is 0.01 not -0.01. Thank you. Kevin

Can someone please enlighten me as to why the following happens? > -2.7^8.6 [1] -5125.407 > p<- -2.7 > q<- 8.6 > p^q [1] NaN R seems perfectly able to calculate -2.7^8.6, but fails when the exact same values are assigned to variables and then the computation is repeated. Thanks in advance for any suggetsions. Kris.

Dear all, Does anybody know the probable reason why <= gives false when it should give true? These two variables are of the same type, and everything works in the cycle but then it stops when they are equal. this is the output result > Rk[47] <= RB[21] [1] FALSE > Rk[47] [1] 0.002842007 > RB[21] [1] 0.002842007 Thanks a lot. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear all Is there a simpler method to achieve the following: When I obtain an empty data.frame after subsetting, I need for it to contain one line of NAs. Here's a dummy example: > (.xb <- iris[ iris$Species=='zz', ]) [1] Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) > dim(.xb) [1] 0 5 > (.xa <-

Hi, I''m interested to write rules direct in Kernel space memory and not to execute the tc command. Have anyone done this before ? Any ideas ? Sources ? Thank you, Liviu -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://linux.bitdefender.com/ _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list /

hi all why does R do this: (-8)^(1/3)=NaN the answer should be : -2 a silly question but i kept on getting errors in some of my code due to this problem. i solve the problem as follows: say we want : (-a)^(1/3) then : sign(a)*(a^(1/3)) works but there has to be a simpler way of soing such a simple mathematical operation. thanking you / allan

Dear all, I'm trying to gsub() "%" with "\%" with no obvious success. > temp1 <- c("mean", "sd", "0%", "25%", "50%", "75%", "100%") > temp1 [1] "mean" "sd" "0%" "25%" "50%" "75%" "100%" > gsub("%",

Why does R CMD INSTALL work for some packages (e.g., lme4) but not others (e.g., nlme)? Thanks, Gang

Dear all, Given the following vector: > (z <- c('R project', 'hello world', 'something Else')) [1] "R project" "hello world" "something Else" I know how to obtain all capitals or all lower case letters: > tolower(z) [1] "r project" "hello world" "something else" > toupper(z) [1] "R

Dear useRs, I have several problems in using rgl-0.77 (and recent earlier versions) on Gentoo Linux with a custom-built v. 2.6.22 kernel. Currently I use R-2.6.1. When I build rgl, # R CMD INSTALL "/home/liviu/inst/dwn/R/rgl_0.77.tar.gz" or install.packages("rgl", dependencies=TRUE, method ="wget"), I notice the following warning messages: i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++

Dear R users I would like to do some spreadsheet style expansion of dates. For example, I would need to obtain a vector of months. I approached in an obviously wrong way: > paste(01:12) [1] "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" "6" "7" "8" "9" "10" "11" "12" > as.Date(paste(01:12),

Dear all, I installed the amd64 cran2deb [1] JGR binaries on a fresh Debian testing, and JGR is missbehaving. When JGR starts up, one core of the CPU goes to 100% and stays there, even though I am keeping it idle and not performing any operation. I tried JGR with both sun-java6-jdk and openjdk-6-jdk, debian-liv:/home/liviu# update-alternatives --config java There are 4 choices for the alternative

Hi there, Maybe people who know both R and econometrics will be able to answer my questions. I want to run panel regressions in R with fixed-effect. I know two ways to do it. First, I can include factor(grouping_variable) in my regression equation. Second, I plan to subtract group mean from my variables and run OLS panel regression with function lm(). I plan to do it with the second way because

Dear all This may be obvious, but I cannot get it working. I'm trying to subset & sort a data frame in one go. x <- iris x$Species1 <- as.character(x$Species) ##subsetting alone works fine with(x, x[Sepal.Length==6.7,]) ##sorting alone works fine with(x, x[order(Sepal.Length, rev(sort(Species1))),]) ##gets subsetted, but not sorted as expected with(x, x[(Sepal.Length==6.7) &

Dear all I'm using Xubuntu Lucid and I keep getting the same random numbers whenever I start a new session of R. For example, I keep getting > sample(1:1000, 1) [1] 87 or > rnorm(1:10) [1] -1.3618103 0.4241701 1.0720076 0.2208145 -0.5375314 -0.4846588 [7] 0.7576768 0.6527407 -0.6868786 0.8718527 I expected that some set.seed() instruction woudl be present in a config file in