Question

I have two variables TEMPD, and ENERGY

I want to create two new variables TEMP2 and TEMP3 by doing something like:

tempd2 = tempd^2;
tempd3 = tempd^3;

Any ideas?

Answer 1

What you have here will work, but in R you use <- instead of =.

temp <- 2
energy <- 16

temp2 <- temp^2
energy2 <- energy^2

Checking the outcomes:

> temp2
 [1] 4
> energy2
 [1] 256