Have you read the Introduction to R tutorial? You seem unaware of even the most basic stuff, especially vectorization and subscripting.
Also, this smells like homework, and we don't do homework here. -- Bert On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:33 PM, djbanana <karl79264...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to code the following in R: a1(b1+b2+b3) + a2(b1+b3+b4) + > a3(b1+b2+b4) + a4(b1+b2+b3) > > or in summation notation: sum_{i=1, j\neq i}^{4} a_i * b_i > > I realise this is the same as: sum_{i=1, j=1}^{4} a_i * b_i - sum_{i=j} a_i > * b_i > > would appreciate some help. > > Thank you. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/summation-coding-tp4646678.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ 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.