I thought I solved my question but actually not... What I really want is to translate a matrix:
mt1: [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] "G" "A" "A" [2,] "C" "T" "C" mt2: [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 1 2 2 [2,] 2 1 2 [3,] 2 2 2 [4,] 1 1 1 I want to translate all the "1" and "2" into "A T G C" that is, change column1 into G(1) and C(2), column2 into A(1) and T(2)... The output should be : [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] G T C [2,] C A C [3,] C T C [4,] G A A I don't know why I'm alway trying to find a solution without using loop... But I do want.. On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Zhenjiang Lan <lan.zhenji...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you very much! that's exactly what I want. > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:32 AM, R. Michael Weylandt > <michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I think you are looking for >> >> mt[cbind(vt, seq_along(vt))] >> >> which uses some trickines known as matrix indexing (basically, the two >> columns created by cbind() are considered row & col indices -- then >> seq_along() gives the col1,col2, bit as needed. >> >> HTH, >> >> Michael >> >> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Zhenjiang Lan <lan.zhenji...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> here's my question: suppose I have a matrix: >>> >>> mt<-matrix(1:12,ncol=6) >>> >>> now I have a vector >>> >>> vt<-c(1,2,2,2,1,2) >>> >>> which means I want to get: >>> the 1st row for column1; >>> the 2nd row for column2; >>> the 2nd row for column3; >>> the 2nd row for column4; >>> ... >>> >>> that what I want is this vector: >>> 1,4,6,8,9,12 >>> >>> Does anyone know how to do this fast? >>> I know I can use for-loop to travel all columns,but that's not what I want. >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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.