I am a newbie, trying to do something very simple and not succeeding

[Jeff Silverman]

I am trying to define a vector and take the natural logarithm of each 
element in the vector.

x = { 1,2,5,10,20,50,80,90,95,98,99}

that works, but then I try

y = log(x)

I get an error message

error: mapper: wrong type argument: 'cell'

I tried wrapping this in a loop and it still gives me the error.

I am sure I am doing something stupidly wrong, but I just don't see it.


Many thanks,


jeff


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