useR's, I want to match the real number elements of a list that has 3 matrices as its elements and then average those numbers. I think I am close, but I can't get it to quite work out. For example,
> a <- list(matrix(c(10,NA,NA,12,11, > 10,13,NA,14,12),ncol=2),matrix(c(10,12,15,13,11, > 13,NA,NA,12,10),ncol=2),matrix(c(10,15,NA,13,NA, 13,12,NA,NA,10),ncol=2)) > a [[1]] [,1] [,2] [1,] 10 10 [2,] NA 13 [3,] NA NA [4,] 13 14 [5,] 11 12 [[2]] [,1] [,2] [1,] 10 13 [2,] 12 NA [3,] 15 NA [4,] 13 12 [5,] 11 10 [[3]] [,1] [,2] [1,] 10 13 [2,] 15 12 [3,] NA NA [4,] 13 NA [5,] NA 10 I want to average the non-NA numbers that simultaneously appear in each column of all 3 matrices. For the first column, 10 and 13 are the only numbers that appear in all 3 matrices. Thus, I want to take the average of 10 and 13. Then repeat the same process for the second column. The data here is only a sample, but with the data I work with, there are many more columns in each matrix in the list. Does anyone know a efficient way to do this? Maybe using lapply()? Thanks in advance. dxc13 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/matching-values-in-a-list-tp14767170p14767170.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.