HI Eliza, No problem. You could also use: set.seed(5) mat1<-matrix(sample(1:400,80,replace=TRUE),ncol=8,nrow=10) library(plyr)
resnew<-do.call(cbind,lapply(alply(mat1,2),function(x) x-colMeans(t(mat1)[!colnames(mat1)%in%names(alply(mat1,2))[match.call()[[2]][[3]]],]))) resprev<-t(do.call(rbind,lapply(lapply(split(mat1,col(mat1)),function(x) cbind(matrix(x,ncol=1),mat1)),function(x){ res1<-rowMeans(t(apply(x,1,function(x) x[!(duplicated(x)|duplicated(x,fromLast=TRUE))]))) res<-x[,1]-res1 res}))) identical(resprev,resnew) #[1] TRUE A.K. ________________________________ From: eliza botto <eliza_bo...@hotmail.com> To: "smartpink...@yahoo.com" <smartpink...@yahoo.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 1:53 PM Subject: RE: [R] loop command to matrix thanks arun. i m more interested in learning commands. thankyou so much eliza > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:45:37 -0800 > From: smartpink...@yahoo.com > Subject: Re: [R] loop command to matrix > To: eliza_bo...@hotmail.com > CC: ruipbarra...@sapo.pt > > HI Eliza, > > I just saw Rui's solution. It is much simpler than mine. > A.K. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: eliza botto <eliza_bo...@hotmail.com> > To: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org> > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 12:51 PM > Subject: [R] loop command to matrix > > > Dear UseRs,Extremely sorry for a basic question. I have a matrix of 19 rows > and 365 columns. what i want to do is the following...First i want to leave > out column number 1 and want to calculate the row wise mean of the remaining > columns, which will obviously give me 365 values in one column, and then > subtracting these values from the column i left out i.e. col=1 then i want to > leave out column 2 and calculate the row wise mean of the remaining columns > which includes column 1 too and then subtracting these values from the column > i left out i.e. col=2.and then continuing this process the last column. i > know a kind of "manual way" of doing things but its extremely long and > laborious.Is there any loop command or shorter way?? > thanks in advanceregardseliza > [[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.