On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Henrik Andersson wrote: > Can anyone explain the results from switch below when a single > charachter "E" is entered? It seems to work with letter S or N...
?switch . . . Warning: Beware of partial matching: an alternative 'E = foo' will match the first argument 'EXPR' unless that is named. See the examples for good practice in naming the first argument. HTH, Chuck > > >> switch("East",West=1,East=2) # Correct > [1] 2 >> switch("E",W=1,E=2) # Not so correct > [1] 1 >> switch("E",E=1,W=2) # Even stranger > [1] "E" >> switch("S",N=1,S=-1) # Correct > [1] -1 > > Kind regards, Henrik > > -- > Henrik Andersson > Tullstorp 2526 > 28195 Vankiva > Sweden > > Tel: +46 451 19149 > Mobil: +46 763 406779 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > Charles C. Berry (858) 534-2098 Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine E mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UC San Diego http://famprevmed.ucsd.edu/faculty/cberry/ La Jolla, San Diego 92093-0901 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.