Sure -- thanks -- only took me 3-4 attempts to get aperm to work (as opposed to really thinking hard about how it works ;-)
On 9/28/2017 11:55 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 28/09/2017 9:10 AM, Evan Cooch wrote: >> Thanks for both the mapply and array approaches! However, although >> intended to generate the same result, they don't: >> >> # mapply approach >> >> n = 3 >> sa <- rnorm(n,0.8,0.1) >> so <- rnorm(n,0.5,0.1) >> m <- rnorm(n,1.2,0.1) >> mats = mapply(function(sa1, so1, m1) >> matrix(c(0,sa1*m1,so1,sa1),2,2,byrow=T), sa, so, m, SIMPLIFY = FALSE) >> >> print(mats) >> >> [[1]] >> [,1] [,2] >> [1,] 0.0000000 0.8643679 >> [2,] 0.4731249 0.7750431 >> >> [[2]] >> [,1] [,2] >> [1,] 0.0000000 0.8838286 >> [2,] 0.5895258 0.7880983 >> >> [[3]] >> [,1] [,2] >> [1,] 0.0000000 1.1491560 >> [2,] 0.4947322 0.9744166 >> >> >> Now, the array approach: >> >> # array approach >> >> ms <- array(c(rep(0, 3),sa*m,so,sa), c(3, 2, 2)) >> >> for (i in 1:n) { print(ms[i,,]) >> >> [,1] [,2] >> [1,] 0.0000000 0.4731249 >> [2,] 0.8643679 0.7750431 >> >> [,1] [,2] >> [1,] 0.0000000 0.5895258 >> [2,] 0.8838286 0.7880983 >> >> [,1] [,2] >> [1,] 0.000000 0.4947322 >> [2,] 1.149156 0.9744166 >> >> >> These matrices are the transpose of those returned by the mapply >> approach. To see if one approach or the other is 'confused', I simply >> rerun setting sd=0 for the parameters -- thus, every matrix will be >> the same. The correct matrix would be: >> >> [,1] [,2] >> [1,] 0.0 0.96 >> [2,] 0.5 0.80 >> >> >> In fact, this is what is returned by the mapply approach, while the >> array approach returns the transpose. I gather the 'missing step' is >> to use aperm, but haven't figured out how to get that to work...yet. >> >> >> On 9/28/2017 5:11 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >>> ms <- array(c(rep(0, 5),sa*m,so,sa), c(5, 2, 2)) >> > > > Sorry about that -- I didn't notice the "byrow = T" in your original. > > Duncan Murdoch > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.