ifelse和if … else …不同
认为相同,主要是受到之前经验的影响,不过这里的ifelse是向量化的运算,返回值的长度会和test的长度一致。可以看ifelse的源码:
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  | function (test, yes, no)  {     if (is.atomic(test))          storage.mode(test) <- "logical"     else test <- if (isS4(test))          as(test, "logical")     else as.logical(test)     ans <- test     ok <- !(nas <- is.na(test))     if (any(test[ok]))          ans[test & ok] <- rep(yes, length.out = length(ans))[test &              ok]     if (any(!test[ok]))          ans[!test & ok] <- rep(no, length.out = length(ans))[!test &              ok]     ans[nas] <- NA     ans } 
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  | > ifelse(c(T, F, T), c(1,2), c(5,6))   [1] 1 6 1 
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install RCurld的问题
在ubuntu12.04上安装:
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  | install.packages("RCurl") 
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提示:
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  | checking for curl-config... no Cannot find curl-config ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RCurl’ 
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解决:
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  | sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev 
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