[R] sum of squares function

[Joshua Wiley]

Hi Adam,

You're in luck, arithmetic operations in R are vectorized so it does
not take any extra effort.

x <- 1:10

sum(x^2)

cheers,

Josh

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:20 PM, covfish87 <covfish87 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> hi, basic question
>
> how do i write a function that sums the squares of elements in a vector of
> any length?
>
> thanks
> Adam
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