[R] R puts '+' within my numbers

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed Sep 3 11:07:03 CEST 2008


Those are continuation line prompts.  Most likely your file exceeds the 
allowed line length for R script (1000 bytes is safe).

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Hanneke van Deutekom wrote:

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>
> Hello,
>
> my test.R file contains two huge arrays (>3000 entries), from which R needs to calculate the Pearson Correlation, if I look at the file the numbers look correct.
> if I run R
>
> R < test.R --no-save
>
> I see things like this:
> 0.723, 0.838, 1.002, 0.364, 0.357, 0.227, 0.982+ , 0.963, 0.535, 1.214, 1.270, 0.832, 1.033, 0.632, 2.482, 1.239, 0.743, 1.077, 0.962, 1.052, 1.075, 1.427, 1.395, 0.625, 1.272, 1.151, 0.749, 1.281, 1.110, 0.327, 1.953, 0.806, 1.291, 0.597, 1.000, 0.715, 1.078, 0.888,+  0.809, 0.946, 1.293, 0.852, 0.817, 2.396, 1.362, 1.545, 0.859,+  0.639, 0.780, 1.131, 0.719, 0.595, 1.203, 0.017, 7.343, 0.310, 3.952, 1.014, 1.109, 1.285, 0.628, 1.017, 3.954, 1.009, 0.831, 1.617,
> R puts "+" with the numbers, they do not appear in the test.R file, so I have no clue where R gets them from and how I can get rid of it..
> at least R cannot calculate anything with these +'s in my array!
>
> what's going wrong??
>
> best,
> Hanneke
>
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