Hi: There are a few ways to do this. If you only have a few arrays, you can simply add them and divide by the number of arrays. If you have a large number of such arrays, this is inconvenient, so an alternative is to ship the arrays into a list and use the Reduce() function. For your example,
L <- list(x1, x2, x3) Reduce('+', L)/length(L) would work. If you have many such arrays in separate files, you can always use lapply() in conjunction with a suitable read function with an input vector that contains the file names to be read, of the general form L <- lapply(<vector of file names>, <function to read data>) with the idea that the read function passes arrays into the list components. Here's a simple toy example with three small matrices to illustrate proof of concept: > t1 <- matrix(1:9, nrow = 3) > t2 <- matrix(-4:4, nrow = 3) > t3 <- matrix(-3:5, nrow = 3) > (t1 + t2 + t3)/3 [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] -2 1 4 [2,] -1 2 5 [3,] 0 3 6 > Reduce('+', list(t1, t2, t3))/3 [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] -2 1 4 [2,] -1 2 5 [3,] 0 3 6 HTH, Dennis On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Martin Batholdy <batho...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have multiple three dimensional arrays. > > Like this: > > x1 <- array(rnorm(1000, 1, 2), dim=c(10, 10, 10)) > x2 <- array(rnorm(1000, 1, 2), dim=c(10, 10, 10)) > x3 <- array(rnorm(1000, 1, 2), dim=c(10, 10, 10)) > > > Now I would like to compute the mean for each corresponding cell. > As a result I want to get one 3D array (10 x 10 x 10) in which at position x, > y, z is the mean of the corresponding values of x1, x2 and x3 (at position x, > y, z). > > > How can I do this? > > ______________________________________________ > 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.