Hello all, Thanks for the responses but I am still annoyed by this seemingly simple problem; I recorded sessionInfo() as below.
x<-rep(0.02,10) > var(x) [1] 1.337451e-35 > sessionInfo() R version 2.1.0, 2005-04-18, i386-pc-mingw32 attached base packages: [1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" [7] "base" > I then decided to download the latest version today but obtained the same result. > x<-rep(0.02,10) > var(x) [1] 1.337451e-35 > sessionInfo() R version 2.2.1, 2005-12-20, i386-pc-mingw32 attached base packages: [1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" [7] "base" I Changed .Machine$double.eps to make the calculations LESS accurate. My thought was that if I reduced the precision, 1-eps would return 1 instead of some number less than 1. My thought was that if eps were sufficiently large my sample problem would return a zero. This didn't happen though. Again, any thoughts would be appreciated. Regards, Barry Zajdlik ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
