Hi Rui, If I don't transpose t() the output of the replicate (my R code here below) I still get an error message !!
######################################## a=c(2,4,3,4,6,5,3,1,2,3,4,3,4,5,65) b=c(23,45,32,12,23,43,56,44,33,11,12,54,23,34,54) d=c(9,4,5,3,2,1,3,4,5,6,4,9,10,11,18) my.experiment <- function() { OLS <- lm( a ~ b+d ) MSE_OLS<-mean(OLS$residuals^2) return( c(MSE_OLS) ) } my.data = replicate( 500, my.experiment() ) colnames(my.data) <- c("MSE_OLS") mean(my.data) ######################################## Le mardi 19 mai 2020 à 23:14:21 UTC+2, Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> a écrit : Hello, Inline. Às 21:38 de 19/05/20, varin sacha via R-help escreveu: > > Hi Richard, > > Thanks for your response. > However, how can I correct my R code knowing that I want, as a result, only > one value : the mean of the 500 MSE_OLS values ? Just don't transpose the output of replicate? Hope this helps, Rui Barradas > > > > > > > > Le mardi 19 mai 2020 à 21:59:07 UTC+2, Richard M. Heiberger <r...@temple.edu> > a écrit : > > > > > >> dim(my.data) > [1] 1 500 > > you have a matrix with a single row and 500 columns. > you gave a name to only the first column. > > Look at the result of replicate(). it is a vector. You transposed it into a > one-row matrix. > >> tmp <- replicate( 500, my.experiment() ) >> dim(tmp) > NULL >> length(tmp) > [1] 500 >> dim(t(tmp)) > [1] 1 500 > > > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 3:51 PM varin sacha via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> > wrote: >> Dear R-experts, >> >> Here is my R code, I get a result but I also get an error message so I doubt >> I can trust the result I get. >> What is going wrong ? Many thanks. >> >> ######################################## >> a<-c(2,4,3,4,6,5,3,1,2,3,4,3,4,5,65) >> b<-c(23,45,32,12,23,43,56,44,33,11,12,54,23,34,54) >> d<-c(9,4,5,3,2,1,3,4,5,6,4,9,10,11,18) >> >> my.experiment <- function( ) { >> >> OLS <- lm( a ~ b+d ) >> MSE_OLS<-mean(OLS$residuals^2) >> return( c(MSE_OLS) ) >> } >> >> my.data = t(replicate( 500, my.experiment() )) >> colnames(my.data) <- c("MSE_OLS") >> mean(my.data) >> ######################################## >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.