Hi, Juliet, Something like this?
mymat[mymat<0]<-min(mymat[mymat>0]) Jun On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Juliet Hannah <juliet.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Group, > > I have a matrix, and I would like to replace numbers less than 0 by > the smallest minimum number. Below is an > small matrix, and the loop I used. I would like to get suggestions on > the "R way" to do this. > > Thanks, > > Juliet > > # example data set > > mymat <- structure(c(-0.503183609420937, 0.179063475173256, 0.130473004669938, > -1.80825226960127, -0.794910626384209, 1.03857280868547, 0.362120146065799, > -2.01124119488992, -1.49083525457822, -0.356354715035589, -0.306686279071398, > 0.0789120002882668, 1.50314029609087, -0.0177677865019544, 1.31642572649823, > 1.78842032090131, -0.991393884836917, -0.868946528068323, -0.325472385456867, > 0.119383948888965), .Dim = c(5L, 4L)) > > > # replacement of negative numbers > > for (mycol in 1:ncol(mymat)) { > sort_dat <- sort(mymat[,mycol]) > min_pos_index <- min(which(sort_dat >0 )) > min_pos_val <- sort_dat[min_pos_index] > neg_nums <- which(mymat[,mycol] <= 0) > mymat[neg_nums,mycol] <- min_pos_val > } > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.