Hi Rui, thanks very much for your help - i've finally cracked it... the correct code was iscores<-list()for (j in seq(1,166,11)){for (i in j:(j+10)) {iscores[[i]=(i-j)*data[[i]] }} instead of iscores[[i-j+1]]=(i-j)*data[[i-j+1]] I probably wasn't explaining myself very well.... if you're interested i've used dput as you suggested on a reduced dataset with just 22 variables and 5 observations. Each variable is a mood score by activity going from 0 to 10 (v1 to v11) and I wanted to multiply each cell by the value of the corresponding score (so v1*0, v2*1, ... , v11*10): > dput(head(mtest, 20))structure(list(Mood0 = c(0, 4, 0, 0, 0), Mood1 = c(0, 8, > 0, 0, 0), Mood2 = c(0, 13, 0, 0, 0), Mood3 = c(0, 19, 0, 4, 0), Mood4 = c(0, > 16, 5, 16, 4), Mood5 = c(19, 27, 16, 37, 2), Mood6 = c(169, 31, 63, 36, 6), > Mood7 = c(13, 34, 107, 47, 12), Mood8 = c(0, 26, 17, 45, 43), Mood9 = c(0, > 24, 0, 27, 100), Mood10 = c(0, 13, 0, 9, 53), `Mood0 and Travelling` = c(0, > 92, 0, 0, 0), `Mood1 and Travelling` = c(0, 184, 0, 0, 0), `Mood2 and > Travelling` = c(0, 299, 0, 0, 0), `Mood3 and Travelling` = c(0, 437, 0, 92, > 0), `Mood4 and Travelling` = c(0, 368, 50, 368, 84), `Mood5 and Travelling` = > c(494, 621, 160, 851, 42), `Mood6 and Travelling` = c(4394, 713, 630, 828, > 126), `Mood7 and Travelling` = c(338, 782, 1070, 1081, 252), `Mood8 and > Travelling` = c(0, 598, 170, 1035, 903)), .Names = c("Mood0", "Mood1", > "Mood2", "Mood3", "Mood4", "Mood5", "Mood6", "Mood7", "Mood8", "Mood9", > "Mood10", "Mood0 and Travelling", "Mood1 and Travelling", "Mood2 and > Travelling", "Mood3 an! d Travelling", "Mood4 and Travelling", "Mood5 and Travelling", "Mood6 and Travelling", "Mood7 and Travelling", "Mood8 and Travelling")) Using the test code below, i was finally able to achieve on this reduced dataset what i set out to do...: > mitest<-list()#list of the i*moodi values for 2 activities> for (j in > seq(1,22,11)) + {+ for (i in j:(j+10))+ {mitest[[i]]=(i-j)*mtest[[i]]+ > }+ }> mtest[[1]][1] 0 4 0 0 0> mitest[[1]][1] 0 0 0 0 0> mtest[[6]][1] 19 27 > 16 37 2> mitest[[6]][1] 95 135 80 185 10> mtest[[12]][1] 0 92 0 0 0> > mitest[[12]][1] 0 0 0 0 0> mtest[[17]][1] 494 621 160 851 42> > mitest[[17]][1] 2470 3105 800 4255 210 Thanks again! Christel
> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 17:54:15 +0000 > From: ruipbarra...@sapo.pt > To: christellac...@hotmail.co.uk > CC: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] help with double looping > > Hello, > > You're right, sorry for the misleading tip. How about seq(1, 177, 11)? > Please note that without a data example, it's not very easy to say. > Can't you post a small dataset using ?dput > > dput(head(data, 20)) # paste the output of this. > > > Rui Barradas > > Em 08-02-2013 17:10, christel lacaze escreveu: > > > > that doesn't seem to be the issue i'm afraid... both j sequences produce > > the same numbers: > > > >> j<-seq(1,166,11) > >> j > > [1] 1 12 23 34 45 56 67 78 89 100 111 122 133 144 155 166 > >> j<-seq(1,176,11) > >> j > > [1] 1 12 23 34 45 56 67 78 89 100 111 122 133 144 155 166 > > > >> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 16:37:52 +0000 > >> From: ruipbarra...@sapo.pt > >> To: christellac...@hotmail.co.uk > >> CC: r-help@r-project.org > >> Subject: Re: [R] help with double looping > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> Maybe seq(1, 16*11, 11)? (16*11 is 176, not 166) > >> > >> > >> Hope this helps, > >> > >> Rui Barradas > >> > >> Em 08-02-2013 16:03, christel lacaze escreveu: > >>> > >>> hi there, > >>> > >>> I have a dataframe in the shape vA1, vA2,..., vA11, vB1, vB2,..., > >>> VB11,......., VP1, VP2,...., VP11 (so 16 times a sequence of 11 variables) > >>> I am trying to build a double loop so that i can apply the function > >>> (i-1)*v(i) to the first 10 variables, then the same for the next 10 > >>> variables, etc... 16 times. > >>> > >>> I have tried the following with no luck: > >>> > >>> iscores<-list() > >>> for (j in seq(1,166,11)) > >>> { > >>> for (i in j:(j+10)) > >>> {iscores[[i-j+1]]=(i-j)*data[[i-j+1]] > >>> } > >>> } > >>> > >>> any suggestion...? > >>> > >>> many thanks, > >>> > >>> Christel > >>> > >>> [[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.