I have a dataset called "results" that looks like this: arrive depart intercept 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 1 1 2 2 1 3 2 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 2 3 3 3
where arrive is the period of arrival, depart is the period of departure, and intercept is the period in which that person was counted. I'm trying to construct the denominator for a likelihood function using the following function. For the first row in "results", for example, I want the denominator to be the sum of all possible arrive/depart combinations an interceptor in period 1 could observe: exp(P_1_1) + exp(P_1_2) + exp(P_1_3) (i.e. P_arrive_depart). get_denominator = function(intercept, periods_per_day) { denominator = array("(", nrow(results)) for (arrival in 1:periods_per_day) { for (departure in arrival:periods_per_day) { while (arrival <= intercept & intercept <= departure) { addition_to_denom = paste("P", arrival, departure, sep = "_") if (nchar(denominator) == 1) { denominator = paste(denominator, "exp(", addition_to_denom, ")", sep = "") } else { denominator = paste(denominator, " + exp(", addition_to_denom, ")", sep = "") } } } } denominator = paste(denominator, ")") return(denominator) } denominator = get_denominator(intercept = results[,"intercept"], periods_per_day = 3) I'm getting the following warning message: In if (arrival <= intercept & intercept <= departure) { ... : the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used. As written, the code gives me the denominator for a period 1 interceptor for every single row! I'm having trouble figuring out how I should re-write this code. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/condition-has-length-1-for-LL-denominator-tp3965365p3965365.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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.