So the behavior of the following code:
x = c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
print(sum(x - 3))
is
But what is the behavior of using multiple vectors in a sum?
For example:
print(sum(x - y - 3))
print(sum(x - y - z - 3))
Sum of Multiple Vectors
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Let's think like this way:
For
sum(v1 - v2 - 3)
it is equivalent to
v <- v1 - v2
sum(v - 3)
where v is a vector from the element-wise difference between v1 and v2, and sum(v-3) is the same as what you did to sum(vector - 3) in your post.
Remark
If you have unequal lengths between multiple vectors, the recycling rule will be applied (see comment by @Waldi)
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