[R] Minor warning about seq

Ray Brownrigg Ray.Brownrigg at ecs.vuw.ac.nz
Wed Dec 1 20:45:30 CET 2010


I think both responses so far have missed the point, (assuming the O was a typo for zero).

That is:
> seq(0:1)
[1] 1 2
when
> seq(0,1)
[1] 0 1
was intended.

Ray Brownrigg

On Wed, 01 Dec 2010, Ista Zahn wrote:
> So you are warning us that you must type zero instead of the letter O
> when we want to enter the value of zero? Seems pretty obvious...
>
> -Ista
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Prof. John C Nash <nashjc at uottawa.ca> wrote:
> > I spent more time than I should have debugging a script because I wanted
> >   x<-seq(0,100)*0.1
> >
> > but typed
> >   x<-seq(O:100)*0.1
> >
> > seq(0:100) yields 1 to 101,
> > Clearly my own brain to fingers fumble, but possibly one others may want
> > to avoid it.
> >
> > JN
> >
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