[R] data manipulation between vector and matrix

arun smartpink111 at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 5 22:05:07 CET 2012


HI,
In addition to ?sweep(), you can use

apply(-mat,1,`+`,x) 

#or
library(plyr)
aaply(-mat,1,"+",x) 


A.K.






----- Original Message -----
From: C W <tmrsg11 at gmail.com>
To: Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com>
Cc: r-help <r-help at r-project.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [R] data manipulation between vector and matrix

Thanks, Sarah.  First time heard about sweep(), it worked just the way I
wanted.
Mike

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:30 PM, C W <tmrsg11 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear list,
> > I was curious how to subtract a vector from matrix?
> >
> > Say, I have
> >
> > mat <- matrix(1:40, nrow=20, ncol=2)
> >
> > x <-c(1,2)
>
> Thanks for the actual reproducible example.
>
> > I want,
> >
> > x-mat[1,] and x-mat[2,], and so on... Basically, subtract column elements
> > of x against column elements in mat.
> >
> > But x-mat won't do it.
>
> This will (note the modification to get x - mat):
> > sweep(-mat, 2, x, "+")
>       [,1] [,2]
>  [1,]    0  -19
>  [2,]   -1  -20
>  [3,]   -2  -21
>  [4,]   -3  -22
>  [5,]   -4  -23
> etc.
>
> --
> Sarah Goslee
> http://www.functionaldiversity.org
>

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