Jorge, Thank you very much for your post.
I tried the below with a few modifications: # First case N<-100000 X<-rnorm(N) step_size<-1 # Groups g<-rep(1:(N/step_size),each=step_size) # The result tmp_output<-tapply(X,g,mean) length_tmp_output<-length(tmp_output) tmp_x_vals<-rep(step_size,length_tmp_output) plot(tmp_x_vals, tmp_output) for(ii in 1:val_size) { step_size<-ii # Groups g<-rep(1:(N/step_size),each=step_size) # The result tmp_output<-tapply(X,g,mean) length_tmp_output<-length(tmp_output) tmp_x_vals<-rep(step_size,length_tmp_output) points(tmp_x_vals, tmp_output) } However, when I change the step_size to 100, I receive the following error: "Error in tapply(X, g, mean) : arguments must have same length" Do you have any idea why the for loop crashes? I figured it would run smooth since it runs fine prior to the loop. Thanks for any insights. --- On Tue, 3/24/09, Jorge Ivan Velez <jorgeivanve...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Jorge Ivan Velez <jorgeivanve...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [R] Grouping Numbers > To: jasonkrup...@yahoo.com > Cc: R-help@r-project.org > Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 10:28 PM > Dear Jason, > Try this: > > # First case > N<-100000 > X<-rnorm(N) > > # Groups > g<-rep(1:(N/n),each=10) > > # The result > tapply(X,g,mean) > > > For the second case, just change each=10 by each=100 and > run again the code > above. > > HTH, > > Jorge > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Jason Rupert > <jasonkrup...@yahoo.com>wrote: > > > > > Ugh...This should be very simple, but evidently I am > not searching for the > > proper term. > > > > Given the below: > > val_size<-100000 > > x_vals<-rnorm(val_size) > > > > I would like to group them according to the following > > x_vals_mean_tmp[1]<-mean(x_vals[1:10]) > > x_vals_mean_tmp[2]<-mean(x_vals[11:20]) > > ... > > x_vals_mean_tmp[n]<-mean(x_vals[99991:100000]) > > > > Then, > > I would like to group them according to the following > > x_vals_mean_tmp[1]<-mean(x_vals[1:100]) > > x_vals_mean_tmp[2]<-mean(x_vals[101:200]) > > ... > > x_vals_mean_tmp[m]<-mean(x_vals[99901:100000]) > > etc. > > > > I'm pretty sure I can come up with a loop to do > this, but wondering if > > there is something that will allow me to break up the > x_vals vector > > according to a certain step size. I looked at split > and cut, but those did > > not appear to accomplish what is needed. > > > > Thanks again. > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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.