[R] Re: R ignoring quantile() in source()d file

[Andrew Perrin]

Even more strangeness - it works fine in batch mode:

R BATCH ../last.stemleaf.R last.stemleaf.out

gets the quantile() output just fine.

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Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology  
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
        aperrin at socrates.berkeley.edu - aperrin at igc.apc.org
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote:

> 
> Can anyone explain this behavior? Essentially, I've created a short file
> to be read in via source() that gets some descriptive information on a
> series of variables in a data frame.  For each variable, I do three
> things:
> 
> print('last.hc.actors')
> quantile(last.hc.actors,probs=seq(0,1,0.1),na.rm=T)
> stem(last.hc.actors)
> 
> where the variable name is (in this case) last.hc.actors.  All that is
> fine, except that R seems to quietly ignore all the quantile() steps.  I
> narrowed it down to bare minimum, trying with a file, test.R, that
> contains simply:
> 
> quantile(last.hc.actors,probs=seq(0,1,0.1),na.rm=T)
> 
> and here's the result:
> > source('test.R')
> > 
> 
> on the other hand, if I make test.R be simply:
> 
> stem(last.hc.actors)
> 
> here's the result:
> > source('test.R')
> 
>   The decimal point is 1 digit(s) to the right of the |
> 
>    0 |
> 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000+451
>    1 |
> 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000111111111111111111111111111+298
>    2 |
> 00000000000000000000000000000000011111111111111111111111111111111222+227
>    3 |
> 00000000000000000000000000001111111111111111111111111111222222222222+175
>    4 |
> 00000000000000000000001111111111111111111111222222222222222222222233+139
>    5 |
> 00000000000000000000111111111111111111122222222222222222223333333333+109
>    6 |
> 00000000000000000011111111111111111122222222222222222233333333333333+100
>    7 |
> 00000000000000000011111111111111111122222222222222222233333333333333+100
>    8 |
> 00000000000000001111111111111111222222222222222233333333333333344444+61
>    9 |
> 00000000000001111111111111222222222223333333333444444444555555556666+14
>   10 | 00000001111111222222233333334444444555555666666777777888888999999
>   11 | 00000111112222233333444445555566667777888999
>   12 | 000111222333444555666777888999
>   13 | 0011223456789
>   14 | 0123456789
>   15 | 0123456789
>   16 | 0123456789
>   17 | 0123456789
>   18 | 01
> 
> > 
>  (sorry for the poor line wrapping)
> 
> Finally, the quantile() command works fine directly pasted onto the
> command line:
> 
> > quantile(last.hc.actors,probs=seq(0,1,0.1),na.rm=T)
>   0%  10%  20%  30%  40%  50%  60%  70%  80%  90% 100% 
>    0    4   10   16   24   34   45   59   74   91  181 
> > 
> 
> any ideas? Thanks.
>  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology  
> Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
>         aperrin at socrates.berkeley.edu - aperrin at igc.apc.org
> 
> 

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