Your message is severely garbled. However a={1,2,3,4,5 6,7,8,9,10} is not going to work since {} is incorrect. you need c()
Anyway try this: a=matrix(1:10,ncol=2) sum(a[1:3,1]) sum(a[1:3,2]) --- On Sun, 4/3/11, mustafabinar <mustafa_bi...@mynet.com> wrote: > From: mustafabinar <mustafa_bi...@mynet.com> > Subject: [R] :HELP > To: r-help@r-project.org > Received: Sunday, April 3, 2011, 9:10 AM > Hello, > > I want to sum first three terms of each column of matrix. > But I don't calculate with "apply" function. > > skwkrt<-function(N=10000,mu=0,sigma=1,n=100, > nboot=1000,alpha=0.05){ > x<-rnorm(N,mu,sigma)#population > samplex<-matrix(sample(x,n*nboot,replace=T),nrow=nboot) > #... > } > > is that: suppose a is a 5x2 matrix. > a={1,2,3,4,5 > 6,7,8,9,10} > > I want to sum first three terms. > sm[1]=1+2+3 > sm[2]=6+7+8 > But I don't calculate. please help me!!! > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.