[R] Arguments become nonnumeric

[jim holtman]

You program contains:

de.dd<-c("Dresden",51,2,13,44)

and since you are mixing characters with numerics and putting them
into a single vector, the data is coerced to a common data type, which
in this case is numeric.  What are you trying to do?  Do you want to
use a list?

> de.dd
[1] "Dresden" "51"      "2"       "13"      "44"
> de.dd<-list("Dresden",51,2,13,44)
> de.dd
[[1]]
[1] "Dresden"

[[2]]
[1] 51

[[3]]
[1] 2

[[4]]
[1] 13

[[5]]
[1] 44

A list will maintain the mode of each element.

On Dec 9, 2007 6:14 AM, Mag. Ferri Leberl <ferri.leberl at gmx.at> wrote:
> Dear Everybody,
> Enclosed are the tiny beginning of a program and its output.
> As a pity, if I load the image <load("kanal.RData")> the elements of
> <de.dd> are non numerical; <de.dd[2]+de.dd[3]> returns <Fehler in
> de.dd[2] + de.dd[3] : nicht-numerisches Argument für binären Operator>.
> How can I keep the numbers numerical?
> Thank you in advance.
> hopefully,
> Mag. Ferri Leberl
>
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Jim Holtman
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What is the problem you are trying to solve?