Hi Jonathan, Following Gabor Grothendieck's advice, try also:
mm <- matrix(1:6, 3, dimnames = list(LETTERS[1:3], letters[1:2])) as.data.frame.table(mm) HTH, Jorge On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Jonathan Greenberg <> wrote: > I have a matrix of, say, M and N dimensions: > > my_matrix=matrix(c(1:60),nrow=6,ncol=10) > > I have two "id" vectors corresponding to the rows and columns, e.g.: > > id_m=seq(10,60,by=10) > id_n=seq(100,1000,by=100) > > I would like to create a "proper" database (let's say a data.frame for > this example -- i'm going to be loading these into an SQLite database, > but we'll leave that complication out of this discussion for now) of m > x n rows, and 3 columns, where the 3 columns relate to the values from > m, n, and my_matrix respectively, e.g. a single row follows the form: > > c(id_m[a],id_n[b],my_matrix[a,b]) > > I can, of course, for-loop this thing with an if-then, e.g.: > > *** > > for (a in 1:length(id_m)) > { > for (b in 1:length(id_n)) > { > if ((a==1) && (b==1)) > { > my_database=c(id_m[a],id_n[b],my_matrix[a,b]) > } else > { > > my_database=rbind(my_database,c(id_m[a],id_n[b],my_matrix[a,b])) > } > } > } > > *** > > But my gut is telling me this is an incredibly inefficient way of > doing this -- is there a faster approach to doing this same process? > Thanks! > > --j > > ______________________________________________ > 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.