>> I tried to be clever by trying get(paste(paste("x", 1:6, sep=""), >> collapse="+")) but it didn't work. Maybe you meant something like this: sapply(paste("x", 1:6, sep=""), function(x)mean(get(x)))
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:30 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Dec 19, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Pablo wrote: > >> Suppose I have the following: >> >> x1<-as.vector(rnorm(10)) >> x2<-as.vector(rnorm(10)) >> x3<-as.vector(rnorm(10)) >> x4<-as.vector(rnorm(10)) >> x5<-as.vector(rnorm(10)) >> x6<-as.vector(rnorm(10)) >> x7<-as.vector(rnorm(10)) >> x8<-as.vector(rnorm(10)) >> x9<-as.vector(rnorm(10)) >> x10<-as.vector(rnorm(10)) >> >> I would like the mean of x1 to x6 for each vector position. > > >> apply( data.frame(x1,x2,x3,x4,x5,x6), 1, mean) > [1] -0.39321854 -0.92940746 -0.04843466 -0.27764111 0.44058599 0.73512759 > [7] -0.22232332 -0.89535287 -0.33430655 0.66217526 >> apply( matrix(c(x1,x2,x3,x4,x5,x6),ncol=6), 1, mean) > [1] -0.39321854 -0.92940746 -0.04843466 -0.27764111 0.44058599 0.73512759 > [7] -0.22232332 -0.89535287 -0.33430655 0.66217526 > > After seeing Jim Holtman's suggestion, it should be clear that rowMeans > would work just even better than these `apply` solutions when used with this > "vertical" orientation of the vectors. > > > >> I would do >> something else with x7-x10. These vectors are not currently in a >> dataframe. >> I tried to be clever by trying get(paste(paste("x", 1:6, sep=""), >> collapse="+")) but it didn't work. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated, >> > > -- > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > > ______________________________________________ > 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.