On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 16:06 +0100, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > Schmitt, Corinna wrote: > > Dear R-Experts, > > > > how can I divide the number 0.285 with 2. I need a function. > > Result: 0.285 / 2 = 0.1425 > > Just get the / operator: > > > divide = get("/") > > > > divide(0.285,2) > [1] 0.1425 > > Is that what you want? > > Barry
You can use the function directly, by quoting it: > "/"(0.285, 2) [1] 0.1425 G -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC & ENSIS, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/cv/ London, UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ 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.