Initializing like this is generally recommended only when the object
sizes get very big. Otherwise it's ok to grow your object as you go
(i.e., append to it on each iteration).
When I want to initialize a list, I do this:
array <- list()
length(array) <- n
## then,
for (i in 1:n) {
## do whatever
array[[i]] <- {whatever you want in element i}
}
## initializing each element ahead of time is unlikely to be
necessary. Don't even go there unless your loop is very slow.
## example
foo <- list() ; length(foo) <- 4
for (i in 1:4) foo[[i]] <- matrix(runif(6),ncol=3)
foo
## but it works just as well without setting the length ahead of time
foo <- list()
for (i in 1:4) foo[[i]] <- matrix(runif(6),ncol=3)
foo
[[1]]
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 0.01916185 0.9891319 0.05098199
[2,] 0.26893225 0.6519368 0.14804408
[[2]]
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 0.9022257 0.5747753 0.7262042
[2,] 0.1554868 0.5840976 0.9242820
[[3]]
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 0.3265957 0.9435791 0.99473207
[2,] 0.7718667 0.8957601 0.04738975
[[4]]
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 0.9570058 0.4994915 0.7615699
[2,] 0.5738325 0.6079360 0.2603755
-Don
At 12:58 PM -0500 7/5/09, zrl wrote:
Dear list,
I have a question regarding how to allocate or initialize the proper type of
the arrays or lists.
I have a for loop, each iteration, I want it to assign a subset of a data
frame to an element of an array or list.
However, I am wondering how I should initialize or allocate the empty array
or list so that it has the same number of the elements as the subsets I am
going to assign and also make the data type is compatible to the subset I am
going to assign to it.
It should look like this:
#initialize or allocate. ( I don't know how to)
{ some codes: initialize an array or list (which one is better?) with "n"
elements}
#"for" loop for assigning a subset of a large data frame to the elements of
the array or list (which on is better?)
for (i in 1: n){
array[i] <- df[df$V1==A[i],]
}
Thanks.
ZRL
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