Dear Arun, thank-you very much. i m extremely sorry for spoiling your Christmas. eliza
> Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 08:51:05 -0800 > From: smartpink...@yahoo.com > Subject: Re: [R] for loop not working > To: eliza_bo...@hotmail.com > CC: r-help@r-project.org; kri...@ymail.com > > HI Eliza, > > Try this: > set.seed(15) > mat1<-matrix(sample(1:2000,1776,replace=TRUE),ncol=444) > colnames(mat1)<-paste("Col",1:444,sep="") > res1<-lapply(1:37,function(i) mat1[,seq(i,444,37)]) > res2<-lapply(1:37,function(i) {a<-mat1[,i:444];a[,c(TRUE,rep(FALSE,36))]}) > #your code > identical(res1,res2) > #[1] TRUE > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: eliza botto <eliza_bo...@hotmail.com> > To: "smartpink...@yahoo.com" <smartpink...@yahoo.com> > Cc: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org>; kri...@ymail.com > Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 1:57 AM > Subject: RE: [R] for loop not working > > > > Dear Arun, > as usuall you were spot on. i tried the following > > >lapply(seq_len(ncol(e)), function(i) { > > >a<-e[,(e[i]:444)] > > >a[,c(TRUE, rep(FALSE,36))] > > >}) > > but it never worked. > thanks for your kind help. > lots of love > > elisa > > > > Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 22:40:08 -0800 > > From: smartpink...@yahoo.com > > Subject: Re: [R] for loop not working > > To: eliza_bo...@hotmail.com > > CC: r-help@r-project.org; kri...@ymail.com > > > > HI Eliza, > > > > You could try this: > > set.seed(15) > > mat1<-matrix(sample(1:2000,1776,replace=TRUE),ncol=444) > > colnames(mat1)<-paste("Col",1:444,sep="") > > res<-lapply(seq_len(ncol(mat1)),function(i) mat1[,seq(i,444,37)]) > > > > #If you want only this from 1:37, then > > res1<-lapply(1:37,function(i) mat1[,seq(i,444,37)]) > > > > > > A.K. > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: eliza botto <eliza_bo...@hotmail.com> > > To: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org> > > Cc: > > Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 12:03 AM > > Subject: [R] for loop not working > > > > > > dear R family,i have a matrix of 444 columns. what i want to do is the > > following. > > 1. starting from column 1 i want to select every 37th column on the way. > > more precisely i want to select column 1, 38,75,112,149 and so on. > > 2.starting from column 2, i again want to select every 37th column. which > > means 2,39,76,113,150 and so on. > > similarly starting from 3 till 37th column. > > i have tried following loop command which is not working.can anyone plz see > > whats wrong in that? > > >for (i in 1:37) > > > > >{ > > > > > > >a<-e[,e[i]:444] > > > > > > >} > > > > > > > lapply(seq_len(1), > > function(i) { > > > > > > >a[,c(TRUE, rep(FALSE,1))] > > > > > > >}) > > extremly sorry for bothering you once again.. > > eliza > > [[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. > > [[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.