Thank you so much to Jim and Mark for their advices. Now I solved the problem I had using a new approach.
Best, Jorge On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:53 PM, jim holtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will this do it for you: > > # Seed and data frames X, Y and Z > set.seed(123) > X=matrix(rnorm(300),ncol=5) > Y=matrix(rpois(300,10),ncol=5) > Z=matrix(rexp(300,1),ncol=5) > > index <- seq(1, by=3, length=nrow(X)) > FINAL <- matrix(ncol=5, nrow=3*nrow(X)) > FINAL[index,] <- X > FINAL[index + 1,] <- Y > FINAL[index + 2,] <- Z > > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Jorge Ivan Velez > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear R-users, > > > > I've been working with three different data sets (X, Y and Z) with the > same > > dimension (i.e, n \times k). What I needed to do was to conform a 4th > data > > set, i.e. FINAL, which first row was the X's first row, its second row > was > > the Y's first row, and its third row was the Z's first row, and so on. > > > > My code is below. Is it possible to avoid the loop? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Jorge > > > > > > > > # ----- Code starts here > > > > # Seed and data frames X, Y and Z > > set.seed(123) > > X=matrix(rnorm(300),ncol=5) > > Y=matrix(rpois(300,10),ncol=5) > > Z=matrix(rexp(300,1),ncol=5) > > > > # First five columns and rows > > X[1:3,1:5] > > Y[1:3,1:5] > > Z[1:3,1:5] > > > > # FINAL' six rows > > res=NULL; for(i in 1:nrow(X)) res=rbind(res,X[i,],Y[i,],Z[i,]) > > FINAL=data.frame(from.data=c('X','Y','Z'),res) > > FINAL[1:9,1:6] > > > > # ----- Code ends here > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Cincinnati, OH > +1 513 646 9390 > > What is the problem you are trying to solve? > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.