Is this what you want:
> x <- read.table(textConnection("g1 g2 f
+ 3 4 10
+ 2 1 30
+ 4 4 50"), header=TRUE)
> closeAllConnections()
> # create empty matrix
> mat <- matrix(0, max(x$g1), max(x$g2))
> mat[cbind(x[,1], x[,2])] <- x[,3]
> mat
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,] 0 0 0 0
[2,] 30 0 0 0
[3,] 0 0 0 10
[4,] 0 0 0 50
>
>
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Van Wyk, Jaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
> I have 3 vectors, say g1, g2 and f, where g1 and g2 contain the row and
> column indices of a matrix, with corresponding elements in f. How can I
> create a matrix containing the values in f ?
> For example:
> g1 g2 f
> 3 4 10
> 2 1 30
> 4 4 50
> How can then get a matrix that looks as follows:
> 0 0 0 0
> 30 0 0 0
> 0 0 0 10
> 0 0 0 50
>
> I am still learning R. I think reshape will help, but it is not clear how
> that works here.
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
> Thank you.
> Jacob
>
>
> Jacob L van Wyk
> Department of Statistics
> University of Johannesburg, APK
> Box 524
> Auckland Park 2006
> South Africa
> Office Tel: +27 11 559 3080
> Fax: +27 11 559 2832
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