Henrique, Again, thank you very much for your code snippets, I am learning from them, but they are also creating as many questions as answers...
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Henrique Dallazuanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then you can try this: > > apply(array(as.vector(sapply(patt, get)), dim = c(dim(get(patt[1])), > ngroups, nsubs)), 1:3, mean) > > > For create the matrices in a loop one option is: > > lapply(seq(1, 51, by=10), function(x)matrix(seq(x, x+8), nrow=3, ncol=3)) > if I use the above code, I get back a list of matrices, which is awesome! The problem is that your code to get the means doesn't work on it ( apply(array(as.vector(...))...additionally, I'm not creating the data, but reading it in, file by file and I don't know what group to assign a file until I open it (group2, group4, group4,group1,group3,group2,group1,etc) so I have 120 files to open and process and each file can be assigned to 1 of 4 groups(or lists as your code demonstrates)...but I don't know until I open the file which group hence my loop and meta structure approach. So I need to open the file, create a matrix from it (which I have working), store it along with other data from the same group, and then after I've read all the files and associated the data with a group, then I can generate the means per cell. So I can create 4 lists of matrices, which is fine by me but I don't see how I extend your code snippets to the case of reading the data from files...I currently have 1 "master" matrix which holds all the subject data as I mentioned in my previous post. data[3,3,1,nsubjects] represents all the subject data in group 1 data[3,3,2,nsubjects] represents all the subject data in group 2 data[3,3,3,nsubjects] represents all the subject data in group 3 how do i pullout just one group's worth of data and apply the mean function to each cell ? group1 <- get(data[,,1,] ? group2 <- get(data[,,2,] ? mean1 <- apply(group1,1:3,mean) # mean per cell, so nine means (3 x 3) for each group... mean2 <- apply(group2,1:3,mean) # mean per cell, so nine means (3 x 3) for each group... thanks so much for your patience! emilio [[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.