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On May 30, 2017 9:24:45 PM PDT, Vijaya Kumar Regati 
<vijayakumar.reg...@m3bi.com> wrote:
>Thanks very much.
>
>Can someone suggest me how I can close this qn, since I have the
>solution now ?
>
>
>With Regards,
>Vijaya Kumar Regati
>Technical Lead, M3bi India Private Ltd
>Work: 040-67064732
>
>________________________________
>From: David L Carlson <dcarl...@tamu.edu>
>Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 3:35:19 AM
>To: Vijaya Kumar Regati; Manjusha Joshi
>Cc: r-help@R-project.org; vijaykr....@gmail.com
>Subject: RE: [R] Need Help - R Programming - Using iteration value to
>change field names for processing for every iteraion
>
>Refer to columns by position rather than name and everything is
>simpler:
>
>for (i in 2:4 ) {
>    test[, i] <- test[, i] + test[, i-1]
>}
>
>Note your approach fails on the first line since you start with i=1 and
>there is no Day0. Another approach that is simpler:
>
>t(apply(test, 1, cumsum))
>
>
>David L. Carlson
>Department of Anthropology
>Texas A&M University
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Vijaya
>Kumar Regati
>Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 3:44 AM
>To: Manjusha Joshi <manjusha.jo...@gmail.com>
>Cc: r-help@R-project.org; vijaykr....@gmail.com
>Subject: Re: [R] Need Help - R Programming - Using iteration value to
>change field names for processing for every iteraion
>
>Hi Manjusha,
>
>
>Thank you for the response. That surely helps.
>
>
>But the major issue in my case is not how we can apply sum fn, but how
>we can  change field names based on iteration number.
>
>I cant skip loop in my case, because in real situation I have to deal
>with say around 100 fields, the only thing that changes is Day number
>in field name and the iteration number should be able to handle that.
>
>
>With Regards,
>Vijaya Kumar Regati
>Technical Lead, M3bi India Private Ltd
>Work: 040-67064732
>
>________________________________
>From: Manjusha Joshi <manjusha.jo...@gmail.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 1:42:10 PM
>To: Vijaya Kumar Regati
>Cc: r-help@R-project.org; vijaykr....@gmail.com
>Subject: Re: [R] Need Help - R Programming - Using iteration value to
>change field names for processing for every iteraion
>
>Hello Vijaya,
>
>On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Vijaya Kumar Regati
><vijayakumar.reg...@m3bi.com<mailto:vijayakumar.reg...@m3bi.com>>
>wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am new to R programming, I am trying to work on below requirement.
>But could not achieve desired result.
>Appreciate if someone can help me on this :
>
>test dataframe :
>  Day1.balc Day2.balc Day3.balc Day4.balc
>x       100        20        30        40
>y       100        10        10        10
>> class(test)
>[1] "data.frame"
>
>My Goal is to accomplish :
>Day2.balc <- Day2.balc + Day1.balc
>Day3.balc <- Day3.balc + Day2.balc
>.
>.
>.
>Day30.balc <- Day30.balc + Day29.balc
>
>    # Testing for first 4 days
>    for (i in 1:4 ) {
>    test$Day[i].balc <- test$Day[i].balc + test$Day[i-1].balc
>    }
>
>I identified the line I have written inside the loop is not the correct
>one, can someone help me how I can use iteration value(i), for every
>iteration, as a basis for changing field names since field consists of
>1,2,3... for each different day( Day1.balc Day2.balc Day3.balc
>Day4.balc etc.,).
>
>​
>​There are many built in functions in R which will help to avoid loops.
>Try 'cumsum' to add entries in a row to get cumulative sum. Use 'apply'
>to avoid loops.
>
>df is the dataframe in which your data has been stored.
>
>t(apply,df,1,cumsum)
>
>will give you the required results.
>Please check help of  'apply' for more details.
>Best wishes,
>
>
>
>​
>
>​
>
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