Hi guys, I am a biologist and an R newbie, and I'm learning how to create a
simple population model.
So, I have a population matrix ("pop")of 30 age classes of female (1:4 are
non-breeders, 5:30 are breeders) which will be modelled for 100 years.
> pop <- matrix(0,30,100)
I then populate this matrix with 3 young adult females.
> pop[5, 1] <- 3
I then want to run this for 100 years, with stochasticity, to see how this
population does over time.
> for (y in 1:100) {
> pop[1,t+1] <- rbinom(1,colSums(pop[5:30, t]), b/2)
(I haven't filled these in but you don't need them, they all have different
survival probabilities to the sexually-mature adults.)
> pop[5, t+1] <- rbinom(1, pop[4, t], s2)
> pop[6, t+1] <- rbinom(1, pop[5, t], s2)
.....
> pop[30, t+1] <- rbinom(1, pop[29, t], s2)
}
So my question is: is there any way of populating this matrix without
having to explicitly write 30 lines of code? Because lines 5 - 30 are all
going to be the same, and yet even after 5 hours (literally) of web
searching and R manual reading I can't find a way to index the rows, which
seems to be what's needed here.
Any insight is welcome here, including a different way of modelling this
population.
Many thanks, Sam.
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