Dear R-users, I have two sets of code that appear to me to be equivalent, shown below, and yet I get the error message
"Error in dim(robj) <- c(dX, dY) : dim<- : dims [product 4] do not match the length of object [1]" after executing the assignment to logdens2. Both functions post.a1 and post.a2 return the same values when run alone and not embedded in the function outer. I would appreciate help in understanding the differences between these two sets of code. The code in post.a1 is from Gelman, Carlin, Stern, and Rubin's Bayesian Data Analysis solutions, problem 3.5. I was trying to modify this code in post.a2 when I ran into this error. post.a1 <- function(mu,sd,y){ ldens <- 0 for (i in 1:length(y)) ldens <- ldens + log(dnorm(y[i],mu,sd)) ldens} y <- c(10,10,12,11,9) mugrid <- c(10,11) sdgrid <- c(1,1.2) logdens1 <- outer (mugrid, sdgrid, post.a1, y) #*** no error messages *** post.a2 <- function(mu,sd,y) { ldens <- sum(log(dnorm(y,mu,sd))) ldens } y <- c(10,10,12,11,9) mugrid <- c(10,11) sdgrid <- c(1,1.2) logdens2 <- outer (mugrid, sdgrid, post.a2, y) #***error message occurs here *** Thank You! Grant Reinman e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.