Dear Shubha, Try this:
x=1:80 tapply(x,rep(1:10,each=8),sum) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 36 100 164 228 292 356 420 484 548 612 HTH, Jorge On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi R, > > > > Let, > > > > x=1:80 > > > > I want to sum up first 8 elements of x, then again next 8 elements of x, > then again another 8 elements..... So, my new vector should look like: > > c(36,100,164,228,292,356,420,484,548,612) > > > > I used: > > > > aggregate(x,list(rep(1:10,each=8)),sum)[-1] > > or > > rowsum(x,group=rep(1:10,each=8)) > > > > > > But without grouping, can I achieve the required? Any other ways of > doing this? > > > > Thanks, Shubha > > > > This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:13}} > > ______________________________________________ > 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.