> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Julio Sergio > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 6:13 PM > To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] Coercing of types when raising a number to a series of > powers > > I'm trying to produce a series of powers of a number as follows: > > |> 0.05^0:5 > [1] 1 2 3 4 5 > > This is not the result I expected. I guess some kind of coercion > happened, > since, > > |> class(0.05^0:5) > [1] "integer" > > Could anyone explain me what is happening here? > > Thanks, > > -Sergio. >
It has to do with operator precedence. '^' has higher precedence than ':'. What you typed 0.05^0:5 Was evaluated as (0.5^0):5 What you should have typed was 0.05^(0:5) Hope this is helpful, Dan Daniel J. Nordlund Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Planning, Performance, and Accountability Research and Data Analysis Division Olympia, WA 98504-5204 ______________________________________________ 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.