As what is going on is completely obvious, I think you need to consult a local programmer to explain it to you -- probably a 15 year old kid will do. Seriously. Doesn't have to know R (other than that a multiline's function's code/body must be enclosed in "{ }." Perhaps reading an R tutorial (maybe "An Intro to R", which ships with R -- have you read it? If not, why not??) might also do.
Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certainly not wisdom." Clifford Stoll On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Sajjad Jafri <sjafr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to create a simple function that finds the number of days > between two dates. However, when I run the function, R gives me an error > message saying: > > > > unexpected '}' in " }" > > Here is my function: > > #create a function that finds the number of days between two dates > diffdate<-function(x,y){ > z<-unclass(as.Date(x)) > z1<-unclass(as.Date(y)) > } > { > return z1-z > } > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.