one way is using the seq(), e.g., say 'm' is your matrix, then try:
m[, seq(1, ncol(m), by = 2)] I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris On 3/9/2011 3:20 PM, Nixon, Matthew wrote:
Hi, This might seem like a simple question but at the moment I am stuck for ideas. The columns of my matrix in which some data is stored are of this form: X1 Y1 X2 Y2 X3 Y3 ... Xn Yn with n~100. I would like to look at just the X values (i.e. odd column numbers). Is there an easy way to loop round extracting only these columns? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. ______________________________________________ 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.
-- Dimitris Rizopoulos Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics Erasmus University Medical Center Address: PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, the Netherlands Tel: +31/(0)10/7043478 Fax: +31/(0)10/7043014 Web: http://www.erasmusmc.nl/biostatistiek/ ______________________________________________ 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.
