On 11 Oct 2007, at 12:55, Martin Ivanov wrote: > Dear R users, > I need to to the the following. Let a= 1 2 3 > 4 5 6 > and b= -1 -2 -3 be (2x3) matrices. > -4 -5 -6 > I need to combine the two matrices into a new (2x6) matrix like this: > > ab = ( 1 -1 2 -2 3 -3 ) > 4 -4 5 -5 6 -6 > > How can this be done in R? > >
> a [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 1 2 3 [2,] 4 5 6 > b [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] -1 -2 -3 [2,] -4 -5 -6 > x <- cbind(a,b)+NA > x [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [1,] NA NA NA NA NA NA [2,] NA NA NA NA NA NA > x[,seq(from=1,by=2,len=3)] <- a > x[,seq(from=2,by=2,len=3)] <- b > x [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [1,] 1 -1 2 -2 3 -3 [2,] 4 -4 5 -5 6 -6 > HTH rksh > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Крайна цел - Да оцелееш! www.survivor.btv.bg > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Robin Hankin Uncertainty Analyst National Oceanography Centre, Southampton European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK tel 023-8059-7743 ______________________________________________ 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.