Gabor's solution seems to optimize 'simpler'. More efficient is to learn that in R a vector is not a matrix, but a matrix is just an ornamented vector.
fastWolfgang <- function( v, vec ) { matrix( c( v, rep( vec, length( v ) ) ) , now = length( v ) ) } On July 3, 2018 6:28:45 AM PDT, "Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (SP)" <wolfgang.viechtba...@maastrichtuniversity.nl> wrote: >Hi All, > >I have one vector that I want to combine with another vector and that >other vector should be the same for every row in the combined matrix. >This obviously does not work: > >vec <- c(2,4,3) >cbind(1:5, vec) > >This does, but requires me to specify the correct value for 'n' in >replicate(): > >cbind(1:5, t(replicate(5, vec))) > >Other ways that do not require this are: > >t(sapply(1:5, function(x) c(x, vec))) >do.call(rbind, lapply(1:5, function(x) c(x, vec))) >t(mapply(c, 1:5, MoreArgs=list(vec))) > >I wonder if there is a simpler / more efficient way of doing this. > >Best, >Wolfgang > >______________________________________________ >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. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ 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.