[R] Help with for

[Thomas Lumley]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, a s wrote:

> I haven't been able to solve two issues, really appreciate any help.
> 
> Q1. Why this one goes like that? (could it be a bug?):
> 
> What I want:
> > J_c(1,2,3)
> > MA_NA
> > MA[1]_min(J[1:2])
> > MA[2]_min(J[2:3])
> > MA
> [1] 1 2
> 
> Good, so now lets do it a little more faster (since the real vectors have
> over 15000 obs):
> 
> > for (i in 1:2) MA[i]_min(J[i:i+1])
> > MA
> [1] 2 3
> 
> It does the same with any function instead of min.

The problem is that i:i+1 should be i:(i+1)
eg
R> i<-10
R> i:i+1
[1] 11
R> i:(i+1)
[1] 10 11

i:i+1  means (i:i)+1, which reduces to i+1


> 
> Q2. The former type of job works better with sapply (or the like), but when
> FUN returns a vector, I haven't been able to get a matrix instead of a list
> (simplify=TRUE, does not make any difference). Any way to avoid converting
> list into matrix after sapply??

I don't know what you mean.  The examples for sapply() include such an
example, and it works.
R> x <- list(a = 1:10, beta = exp(-3:3), logic = c(T,F,F,T))
R> sapply(x, quantile)
         a        beta logic
0%    1.00  0.04978707   0.0
25%   3.25  0.25160736   0.0
50%   5.50  1.00000000   0.5
75%   7.75  5.05366896   1.0
100% 10.00 20.08553692   1.0

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

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