Hi Denver, > I want to calculate the return say AMR,so I use
If data is a matrix or a data.frame you need to use the correct index: [row,col] instead of [row]. Try: re=numeric(10) for (i in 2:nrow(data)) { re[1]=0 re[i]=log(data[i,1]/data[i-1,1]) } This works, but of course you have negative values of the ratio, so the log cannot be computed. See also ?apply. ______________________________________________ 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.