Re: [R] var on a vector

2003-10-02 Thread Philippe Glaziou
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am an R newbie. I have a problem with computing a variance on a vector. data(cars) variance - function (x) mean(x^2)-mean(x)^2; variance(cars[,1]) [1] 27.4 var(cars[,1]) [1] 27.95918 What did I assume/understand wrong ? You wrongly

Re: [R] var on a vector

2003-10-02 Thread Matthias Kohl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hello I am an R newbie. I have a problem with computing a variance on a vector. data(cars) variance - function (x) mean(x^2)-mean(x)^2; variance(cars[,1]) [1] 27.4 var(cars[,1]) [1] 27.95918 What did I assume/understand wrong ? TIA Hello,