Hi All.

I would like to compute a separate covariance matrix for a set of variables
for each of the levels of a factor and then compute the average covariance
matrix over the factor levels.  I can loop through this computation but I
need to perform the calculation for a large number of levels and am looking
for something more elegant.  To be concrete....

u    <- 3
n    <- 10

x    <- rnorm((id*u))
y    <- rnorm((id*u))
z    <- rnorm((id*u))
id   <- gl(u,n)

df   <- data.frame(id,x,y,z)
df.s <- split(xxx,id)

lcov <- lapply(df.s,cov)
lcov

What's an efficient way to compute the average covariance matrix over the
list members in "lcov"?

Thanks in advance,

Rick

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