Actually i just saw that i copied the wrong code apply(m,2,function(x){median(c(x,m[,5]))})
it should be. Sorry if this confused anyone. On 15.10.2012, at 15:32, eliza botto wrote: > > Dear Arun and Jessica, > thnx for your reply. it realy worked out. > regards > eliza > > >> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:55:55 -0700 >> From: smartpink...@yahoo.com >> Subject: Re: [R] median between matrix column >> To: eliza_bo...@hotmail.com >> CC: r-help@r-project.org >> >> HI, >> May be this helps you (if I understand it correctly): >> set.seed(1) >> mat1<-matrix(sample(1:500,160,replace=TRUE),ncol=16) >> res<-do.call(rbind,lapply(1:ncol(mat1[,-16]),function(i) >> median(sort(stack(as.data.frame(mat1[,c(i,16)]))[,1])))) >> res >> # [,1] >> #[1,] 239.0 >> #[2,] 238.0 >> #[3,] 181.5 >> #[4,] 244.5 >> #[5,] 265.0 >> #[6,] 212.0 >> #[7,] 228.5 >> #[8,] 233.0 >> #[9,] 182.5 >> #[10,] 239.5 >> #[11,] 233.5 >> #[12,] 220.0 >> #[13,] 235.0 >> #[14,] 259.0 >> #[15,] 227.0 >> >> A.K. >> >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: eliza botto <eliza_bo...@hotmail.com> >> To: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org> >> Cc: >> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 8:20 AM >> Subject: [R] median between matrix column >> >> >> Dear useRs, >> >> 1. how to calculate single median value for two columns of a matrix? >> 2. i have a matrix of 16 columns and 365 rows, how to calculate median >> between columns 1 and 16, 2 and 16, 3 and 16, 4 and 16, 5 and 16 till 15th >> column. is there a loop command to do the said operation? >> >> regards >> eliza >> [[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. >> > > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.