Dear Annemarie, Can you replicate the problem using a madeup dataset or one of the ones built into R? It strikes me as odd to pass tree1$edge directly to lapply, when it is also hardcoded into the function, but I do not have a sense exactly for what you are doing and without data it is hard to play around.
Cheers, Josh On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Annemarie Verkerk <annemarie.verk...@mpi.nl> wrote: > Dear R-help subscribers, > > I have a quite stupid question about using lapply. I have the following > function: > > create.gradient <- function(i){ > colorgrad01<-color.scale(seq(0,1,by=0.01), extremes=c("red","blue")) > tree1$edge[i,1] -> x this works, but it would typically be written: x <- tree1$edge[i, 1] flipping back and forth can be a smidge (about 5 pinches under an iota) confusing. > tree1$edge[i,2] -> y > print(x) > print(y) > all2[x] -> z > all2[y] -> z2 > round(z, digits = 2) -> z > round(z2, digits = 2) -> z2 > z*100 -> z > z2*100 -> z2 > print(z) > print(z2) > colorgrad<-colorgrad01[z:z2] > colorgrad > } > > Basically, I want to pick a partial gradient out of a bigger gradient > (colorgrad01) for values that are on row i, from a matrix called tree1. > > when I use lapply: > > lapply(tree1$edge, create.gradient) > > I get the following error message: > > Error in FUN(X[[27L]], ...) : subscript out of bounds > > I'm not sure what's wrong: it could be either fact that 'colorgrad' is a > character string; i.e. consisting of multiple characters and not just one, > or because 'i' doesn't come back in the object 'colorgrad' that it has to > return. Or it could be something else entirely... > > In any case, what I prefer as output is a vector with all the different > 'colorgrad's it generates with each run. > > Thanks a lot for any help you might be able to offer! > Annemarie > > -- > Annemarie Verkerk, MA > Evolutionary Processes in Language and Culture (PhD student) > Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics > P.O. Box 310, 6500AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands > +31 (0)24 3521 185 > http://www.mpi.nl/research/research-projects/evolutionary-processes > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles https://joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ 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.