This gets you close ... Jean
library(zoo) t(apply(mymatrix, 1, rollapply, w, sum)) On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Anika Masters <anika.mast...@gmail.com>wrote: > #using "rollapply" to calculate a moving sum or running sum? > > #I am tryign to use rollapply to calcualte a moving sum? #I tried > rollapply and get the error message > #"Error in seq.default(start.at, NROW(data), by = by) : > # wrong sign in 'by' argument" > > #example: > > mymatrix <- ( matrix(data=1:100, nrow=5, ncol=20) ) > mymatrix_cumsum <- ( matrix(data=NA, nrow=5, ncol=20) ) > w=12 > for(i in 1: (ncol(mymatrix)-w+1) ) { > mymatrix_cumsum[ , i] <- apply(X=mymatrix[, i:(i+w-1)] , MARGIN=1, > FUN=sum, na.rm=T) > } > > #How might I use the "rollapply" function instead? > > rollapply(mymatrix, 12, sum) > > rollapply(data = mymatrix, width = 12, FUN=sum, by.column =T, fill = > NA, partial = FALSE, align = "left" ) > > ______________________________________________ > 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.