problem with Power function on a power my result is "inf"

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Dear user,

I have a problem with a power because after a value the result is "inf"

Mydata  <-  data.frame(plot=c(11,12,13,14,15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26,
31, 32,33, 34),

SumH=c(17573.029,22572.162,19659.984,13952.781,6996.924,16049.598,13869.409,
8284.981,7752.961,18901.742,11078.659,33692.330,44456.277,18737.265,21623.89
8,15837.077))

# USE a power from 1 to 10 by 0.1

power <- seq(1.0, 10.0, by=0.1) 

for (method in 1:length(power)){

Mydata$power <- paste(Mydata$SumH^method)

write.matrix(Mydata, paste(file =
"C:/SNAMP_fns/GSmodel/mydata","_",method+9,".txt", sep=""), sep = "\t")

}

On 57 power some value strart to be "inf". All "inf" in power of 10. Is It a
limit of memory or another problem?
Do you mean
   Mydata$SumH^method
or
   Mydata$SumH^(power[method])
?

If the latter, you won't see Inf as early as before.

The limit is the representation of floating point numbers. See ?.Machine 
  on how to learn about the limits of your version of R / platform.

Uwe Ligges

Eventually is there a possibility to correct? Or I need to use a seq from 1
to 5 or less?
>

Thanks Ale

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