I think what you are looking for is ?table and/or ?prop.table
So, let's say you have two matrices: ACTUAL and CLASS, you can ... table(ACTUAL, CLASS) Or, diag(1-prop.table(table(ACTUAL, CLASS), 1)) to get row percentages and take the diagonal. So, using your example: # table() as above would render the following matrix mat <- matrix(c(100, 25, 10, 250, 100, 5, 50, 25, 40), 3) and prop.table() renders: > prop.table(mat, 1) [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 0.2500000 0.6250000 0.1250000 [2,] 0.1666667 0.6666667 0.1666667 [3,] 0.1818182 0.0909091 0.7272727 In the above, the diagonal is the % correctly classified. > diag(1-prop.table(mat, 1)) [1] 0.7500000 0.3333333 0.2727273 TF -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Gregory Ryslik Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 10:19 AM To: R Help Subject: [R] misclassification matrix HI Everyone, I am working with the following situation. I have n observations and j possible outcomes and each one of the n observations is assigned a class from 1 to j. Furthermore, this process is done m times (for some large m > 1000). What I want to do is create a misclassification matrix which tells me for each one of the possible classes, how many observations were classified correctly, and then how many were incorrectly at each level. Here is an example of what I mean 0 1 2 Misclassification 0 100 250 50 .75 1 25 100 25 .333333 2 10 5 40 .2727273 For each one of the 1 to j elements, I can use a nested for loop to count how many were classified as 0, are in 1, etc and then construct such matrix. Thus for each element I have j comparisons and then I have j total rows leading to an O(j^2) running time. Any way I can avoid such a for loop and perhaps make it run a bit quicker? If not, any ideas then at least how to avoid the double for loop and make the code more aesthetically pleasing? As always, thank you for your help! Kind regards, Greg ______________________________________________ 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.