On 18-10-2012, at 21:33, djbanana wrote: > I would like to code the following in R: a1(b1+b2+b3) + a2(b1+b3+b4) + > a3(b1+b2+b4) + a4(b1+b2+b3) > > or in summation notation: sum_{i=1, j\neq i}^{4} a_i * b_i > > I realise this is the same as: sum_{i=1, j=1}^{4} a_i * b_i - sum_{i=j} a_i > * b_i >
This is partly TeX notation not summation notation, whatever that may be. And these "sums" make no sense: where is index j used in the first? where is it used in the second? Solutions starting from you explicit formula, from slowest to fastest sum( outer(a,b,"*") ) - sum(a*b) sum(sapply(1:length(a),function(k) a[k]*sum(b[-k]))) sum(convolve(a,b)) - sum(a*b) # sum(convolve(a,rev(b), type="o")) - sum(a*b) Berend > would appreciate some help. > > Thank you. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/summation-coding-tp4646678.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.