Hi Francesca, > for(i in 1:length(x1<-c(100,1000,10000))){ j<-x1[i] x1[i]<-mean(j) }
> x1 [1] 100 1000 10000 A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Francesca <francesca.panco...@gmail.com> To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 10:59 AM Subject: [R] How to fix indeces in a loop Dear Contributors, I have an easy question for you which is puzzling me instead. I am running loops similar to the following: for (i in c(100,1000,10000)){ print((mean(i))) #var<-var(rnorm(i,0,1)) } This is what I obtain: [1] 100 [1] 1000 [1] 10000 In this case I ask the software to print out the result, but I would like to store it in an object. I have tried a second loop, because if I index the out put variable with the i , i get thousands of records which I do not want(a matrix of dimension 10000). for (i in c(100,1000,10000)){ for (j in 1:3){ x[j]<-((mean(i))) #var<-var(rnorm(i,0,1)) }} This is the x: [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 10000 NA NA [2,] 10000 NA NA [3,] 10000 NA NA Clearly the object x is storing only the last value of i, 10000. I would like to save a vector of dimension 3 with content 100,1000,10000, but I do not know how to fix the index in an efficient manner. Thanks for any help you can provide. Francesca ______________________________________________ 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.