[R] sample

[Liaw, Andy]

Others have pointed out `paste' for constructing the file names.  What I'd
like to suggest is `cleaning up' the code a bit.  Assuming func1, ..., func9
all return a single number, so that each tapply() call returns a vector, you
can try something like:

> f1 = mean
> f2 = median
> f3 = function(x) (mean(x) + median(x)) / 2
> ## Put the functions into a list.
> flist = sapply(1:3, function(i) get(paste("f", i, sep="")))
> x = rnorm(20)           ## generate some data
> g = rep(1:4, each=5)    ## generate groups
> res = apply(sapply(flist, function(f) tapply(x, g, f)), 2, var)
> res
[1] 0.4264803 0.5438598 0.4639551

(You obviously need to work out the details to make sure this fits the data
structure you have.)

This is sort of taking the `whole object' approach.  You can take it one
step further by using replicate() instead of explicit for loop to repeat the
1000 times...

Andy

> From: Rogério Rosa da Silva
> 
> Dear List:
> 
> 	I have the following simple program:
> 
> x<- sample(site)
> VarGuilda1<- var(tapply(x,site,func1))
> VarGuilda2<- var(tapply(x,site,func2))
> VarGuilda3<- var(tapply(x,site,func3))
> VarGuilda4<- var(tapply(x,site,func4))
> VarGuilda5<- var(tapply(x,site,func5))
> VarGuilda6<- var(tapply(x,site,func6))
> VarGuilda7<- var(tapply(x,site,func7))
> VarGuilda8<- var(tapply(x,site,func8))
> VarGuilda9<- var(tapply(x,site,func9))
> Var<-cbind(VarGuilda1,VarGuilda2,VarGuilda3,VarGuilda4,VarGuil
> da5,VarGuilda6,VarGuilda7,VarGuilda8,VarGuilda9)
> write(Var,file="LAU_Var_01.txt", ncol=9)
> 
> 	Every time I want to repeat this I have to change the 
> name of *.txt 
> file manually. How can I automate this, so it could be done 
> for all the  
> *.txt files (1000) I have to generate.
> 
> 
> 	Thanks in advance, Rogério
> 
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