How about x <- x / rep(divs, rep(1000, 1000))
? Cheers, Andrew On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:36:23PM -0300, Andre Nathan wrote: > Hello, > > I have a vector of 1,000,000 numbers and another vector of 1,000 > divisors. What I'd like to do is to divide the first 1,000 numbers of > the first vector by the first divisor, then the next 1,000 by the second > divisor and so on. I came up with this, but I was wondering if there is > a more idiomatic, R-like way to write it: > > x <- ... > divs <- ... > > for (i in seq(from = 1, to = 1000000, by = 1000)) { > x[i:(i - 1 + 1000)] <- x[i:(i - 1 + 1000)] / divs[i %/% 1000 + 1] > } > > Any suggestions are welcome. > > Thanks in advance, > Andre > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-6410 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr http://blogs.mbs.edu/fishing-in-the-bay/ ______________________________________________ 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.