Hi! In the example below why is x[[1]] == 0.2237724 false?
Alexander Nervedi >x <- runif(10) >x[[1]] [1] 0.2237724 >x [1] 0.2237724 0.2678944 0.9375811 0.5963889 0.6180519 0.6449580 0.7308510 [8] 0.7347386 0.4837286 0.1416100 >x[[1]] == 0.2237724 FALSE >From: "Alexander Nervedi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [R] Creating Vectors >Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:57:35 +0000 > >Hi all. > >I have a factor variable distributed over time. I am looking for an elegant >way to code duration of a state. Suppose, > > >rainfall.shocks <- factor(sample(c(1,2,3), size = 15, replace = TRUE, >prob > >= unit.p), >+ label = c("Drought", "Normal", "High")) > > > >rainfall.shocks >[1] Normal High High Drought Normal Normal High Normal Drought >[10] Normal Drought Normal Normal Normal Normal > > >So capture the duration of say drought, I'd need a variable that is able to >keep track of rainfall.shocks as well as its past values. I was wondering >if >there is any obvious way to do this. the Drought variable in this case >would >have values > >0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 > >many thanks for the suggestions you are likely to make. > >Alexander Nervedi > >______________________________________________ >[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 ______________________________________________ [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
