This should be faster. It uses apply() across the blocks. > ilon <- seq(1,8,nx) > ilat <- seq(1,4,ny) > cells <- as.matrix(expand.grid(ilat, ilon)) > blocks <- apply(cells, 1, function(x) tst[x[1]:(x[1]+1), x[2]:(x[2]+1)]) > block.means <- colMeans(blocks) > tst_2x2 <- matrix(block.means, 2, 4) > tst_2x2 [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [1,] 3.5 11.5 19.5 27.5 [2,] 5.5 13.5 21.5 29.5
------------------------------------- David L Carlson Department of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77840-4352 -----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-poject.org] On Behalf Of Anthoni, Peter (IMK) Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 6:14 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Aggregate matrix in a 2 by 2 manor Hi all, I need to aggregate some matrix data (1440x720) to a lower dimension (720x360) for lots of years and variables I can do double for loop, but that will be slow. Anybody know a quicker way? here an example with a smaller matrix size: tst=matrix(1:(8*4),ncol=8,nrow=4) tst_2x2=matrix(NA,ncol=4,nrow=2) nx=2 ny=2 for(ilon in seq(1,8,nx)) { for (ilat in seq(1,4,ny)) { ilon_2x2=1+(ilon-1)/nx ilat_2x2=1+(ilat-1)/ny tst_2x2[ilat_2x2,ilon_2x2] = mean(tst[ilat+0:1,ilon+0:1]) } } tst tst_2x2 > tst [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [1,] 1 5 9 13 17 21 25 29 [2,] 2 6 10 14 18 22 26 30 [3,] 3 7 11 15 19 23 27 31 [4,] 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 > tst_2x2 [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [1,] 3.5 11.5 19.5 27.5 [2,] 5.5 13.5 21.5 29.5 I though a cast to 3d-array might do the trick and apply over the new dimension, but that does not work, since it casts the data along the row. > matrix(apply(array(tst,dim=c(nx,ny,8)),3,mean),nrow=nrow(tst)/ny) [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [1,] 2.5 10.5 18.5 26.5 [2,] 6.5 14.5 22.5 30.5 cheers Peter ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.