Hello Suppose I have a matrix mat=(1:16,2) [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [1,] 1 5 9 13 [2,] 2 6 10 14 [3,] 3 7 11 15 [4,] 4 8 12 16 I just want to use the "apply" function to the matrix partially there is a vector end=c(2,3,1,3) #sum the 1st 2 numbers of the 1st column #sum the 1st 3 numbers of the 2nd column #sum the 1st number of the 3rd column #sum the 1st 3 numbers of the 4th column #they are specified by vector end a for loop for (i in 1:4) { outsum=sum[1:end[i],i] } but when I want to do it to a large dataset, it's inefficency becomes a problem, so need vectorization the "apply" function will sum all of each vector, which is not my purpose
Thank you in advance Yours sincerely ZhaoXing Department of Health Statistics West China School of Public Health Sichuan University No.17 Section 3, South Renmin Road Chengdu, Sichuan 610041 P.R.China __________________________________________________ ¸Ï¿ì×¢²áÑÅ»¢³¬´óÈÝÁ¿Ãâ·ÑÓÊÏä?
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