Thanks Gabor! I never realized there could be a "diff" function. all i was trying to do was to calculate the iterated differences in a vector. I feel so embarassed, but so happy for using R. by the way, i used "wave2 <- sort (wave2, decreasing=F)" to sort the values non-decreasingly because the code "i <- findInterval((wave2[1]), wave2)" doesnt work without this sorting. But all that is past now since i found the diff function.
Thanks again. abid > > From: "Gabor Grothendieck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: "Syed Abid Hussaini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:30:57 -0500 > Subject: Re: [R] saving while loop values to one vector > > Its not clear what your code is intended to do but > > - put set.seed(123) before your code so you can > run it reproducibly. > > - wave2 <- sort(abs(rnorm(100))) is the same as your first > two lines > > - your findInterval line always returns 1 so its probably not what you want > > - i in i:x is confusing. Use j in i:x or even better use diff(wave2). > > On Dec 24, 2007 1:54 AM, Syed Abid Hussaini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I solved it myself by reading the help files which i should have done prior > > to my posting. > > > > Solution: > > > > wave2 <- abs(Re(rnorm(100))) > > wave2 <- sort (wave2, decreasing=F) > > hist(wave2) > > x <- length (wave2) > > i <- findInterval((wave2[1]), wave2) > > i <- i+1 > > out <- numeric(x) > > for (i in i:x) { > > out[i] <- (wave2 [i] - wave2[i-1]) > > } > > out > > > > As you see i trimmed the code and alloted a new variable called out which i > > later save my > values > > to. > > > > > > > > --- Syed Abid Hussaini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > I am pretty new to R and even new to programming in general. Right now > > > i get only one > value > > > for > > > j below (print(j)), how do i save all j values to one vector or matrix? > > > Sorry for this very > > > basic > > > question. thanks in advance. > > > > > > wave2 <- abs(Re(rnorm(100))) > > > i <- findInterval((wave2[1]), wave2) > > > i <- i+1 > > > > > > while (i < length(wave2)) { > > > j <- (wave2 [i] - wave2[i-1]) > > > print(j) > > > i<-i+1 > > > } > > > > > > abid > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? ______________________________________________ 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.