Many thanks! Never used lists before, but it’s a great solution! It works very well!
Although, I have a next question concerning this. I want to know for which value (column) I have the maximal Rsquared. Therefore, I unlist the LIST so that it’s written like a vector. The columns were always named in the same way. They always start with results4$depth_ following by the number. The numbers are constructed as: seq(1,10,0.1). But if the R squared values are now in 1 column, I don’t know for which column they are calculated. So I made a new data frame with both columns: R2 <- unlist(LIST) Cvalue <- c(seq(1,10,0.1)) results5 <- data.frame(Cvalue,R2) # I know I can calculate the max value of Rsquared by this way: max(results5$R2) # now I want to know to which Cvalue this belongs. I would write it like this: results5$Cvalue[which(results5$R2 == "max(results5$R2)")] # But I always get the solution: numeric(0) # I don’t know if these Rsquared values are in a kind of format that this doesn’t work? (I used before for similar things, and I know that for example it cannot works if R recognises the values as a date) Maybe because it’s with decimals? I know that max(results5$R2) is in this example 0.6081547 and I can see that that belongs to the Cvalue == 1.8. It works in the opposite way. results5$R2[which(results5$Cvalue == "1.8")] # But neither results5$Cvalue[which(results5$R2 == "0.6081547")] # nor results5$Cvalue[which(results5$R2 == "max(results5$R2)")] # works… # I have an other question concerning accomplishing calculations on several colums. Again, there is a loop involved… I don’t know if I should ask it in this topic as well, because I don’t want to start to many kind of similar topics. I searched in the helpforum but unfortunately I couldn’t find something similar. Again, I manage to do it for one column (with the use of the specific name for this column). In each columns, I have 60 values. But to compare it to another column, I should reorganize the values. I want that value 2 becomes value 1, value 3 value 2 and so on. The first value would be NA. If I would do this for 1 column, I would do it like this: results$newdepth[1] <- NA for (t in 2:60) { results$newdepth[t] <- results$depth[t-1] } Like I mentioned before, the names of each column are constructed in the same way: results$depth_ followed by a number (seq(1,10,0.1)). So I don’t know how to manage to repeat this for all the columns at the same time? I would think about a for loop with for example for (i in 1:91) because there are 91 columns, but then I don’t know how to say that it should happen for each column. I was thinking about using this for (u in 1:91) { results$newdepth [,u]<- results$depth [,u] for (t in 2:60) { results$newdepth[,u][t] <- results$depth[,u] [t-1] }} But I can see that there are several reasons why a for loop like this cannot work. (like [ ][ ], …) I just really cannot find an other manner to repeat a calculation or something els on several columns... -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Accomplishing-a-loop-on-multiple-columns-tp4284974p4289137.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.