Thanks very much Gabor Bill
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Gabor Grothendieck<ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > In terms of x this is: > > k <- 3 > x <- 1:5 > > n <- length(x) > matrix(x, 2*n-1, k)[1:n, ] > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Gabor > Grothendieck<ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Try this (ignore the warning): >> >> k <- 3 >> matrix(1:5, 9, k)[1:5, ] >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 8:54 AM, William >> Simpson<william.a.simp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I want a function that takes an input vector, the number of columns >>> and returns a matrix as follows. >>> >>> x<- 1:5 >>> >>> foo(x, nc=3) >>> >>> 1 5 4 >>> 2 1 5 >>> 3 2 1 >>> 4 3 2 >>> 5 4 3 >>> >>> Thanks again for any help. >>> >>> Bill >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> > ______________________________________________ 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.