On 4/21/2008 5:54 AM, William Simpson wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I am running into a problem with matrices. I use R version 2.4.1 and > an older version. > > The problem is this: > m<-matrix(ncol=3,nrow=4) > m[,1:3]<-runif(n=4) > > That does what I expect; it fills up the rows of the matrix with the > data vector >> m > [,1] [,2] [,3] > [1,] 0.2083071 0.2083071 0.2083071 > [2,] 0.5865763 0.5865763 0.5865763 > [3,] 0.7901782 0.7901782 0.7901782 > [4,] 0.8298317 0.8298317 0.8298317 > > But this doesn't work: > m[1:4,]<-runif(n=3) >> m > [,1] [,2] [,3] > [1,] 0.96864939 0.11656740 0.06182311 > [2,] 0.11656740 0.06182311 0.96864939 > [3,] 0.06182311 0.96864939 0.11656740 > [4,] 0.96864939 0.11656740 0.06182311 > > I want it to fill up the columns of the matrix with the data vector.
Does this help? > matrix(runif(4), ncol=3, nrow=4) [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 0.60226296 0.60226296 0.60226296 [2,] 0.74104084 0.74104084 0.74104084 [3,] 0.70955138 0.70955138 0.70955138 [4,] 0.03136881 0.03136881 0.03136881 > matrix(runif(3), ncol=3, nrow=4, byrow=TRUE) [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] 0.7008625 0.8348078 0.1003123 [2,] 0.7008625 0.8348078 0.1003123 [3,] 0.7008625 0.8348078 0.1003123 [4,] 0.7008625 0.8348078 0.1003123 > Maybe there is a better way to do what I want. I need to do both of > the above. The matrices are large, so I need a fast method. > > Thanks very much for any help. > > Bill Simpson > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Chuck Cleland, Ph.D. NDRI, Inc. (www.ndri.org) 71 West 23rd Street, 8th floor New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 845-4495 (Tu, Th) tel: (732) 512-0171 (M, W, F) fax: (917) 438-0894 ______________________________________________ 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.