Hi robin, I'm not sure is what you need, but that's an esthetically nice solution (one single line without any loop :) )
matrix(apply(log(cbind(as.numeric(a),as.numeric(b),as.numeric(c),as.numeric(d))),1,sd),3) hope it could help, PF On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Robin Cura <robin.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently trying to convert a slow and ugly script I made, so that it's > faster and can be computed on a computer grid with the multicore package. > My problem is that I don't see how to turn some loops into an "apply-able" > function. > > Here's an example of my loops : > I got a list of dataframes (or matrices like here), and I need to browse > each cell of those many dataframes to compute a mean (or standard deviation > like here). > > Here's a example script : > > a <- b <- c <- d <- result <- matrix(nrow=3, ncol=3) > a[] <- sample.int(n=100,size=9,replace=TRUE) > b[] <- sample.int(n=100,size=9,replace=TRUE) > c[] <- sample.int(n=100,size=9,replace=TRUE) > d[] <- sample.int(n=100,size=9,replace=TRUE) > result[] <- NA > mylist <- list(a,b,c,d) > > for (row in 1:3) > { > for (col in 1:3) > { > tmpList <- log(mylist[[1]][row, col]) > for (listitem in 2:4) > { > tmpList <- c(tmpList, log(mylist[[listitem]][row, col])) > } > result[row, col] <- sd(tmpList) > } > } > > Considering I have to look at the same cell in each dataframe, I don't > understand how I could turn this into a function, considering I need the > row and column number to iterate. > > I succeeded improving my script duration a lot, but such loops are really > long to run, considering that my lists contains like 100 dataframes, who > all contains thousands of values. > > Any help would be really appreciated > > Thanks in advance, > > Robin > > [[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. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Patrizio Frederic, | http://www.economia.unimore.it/frederic_patrizio/ +----------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ 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.