Hi Sorry I don't seem to have explained what I'm trying to do very clearly. The piece of code below multiplies the two matrices together a number of times based on the value in the matmult(InitialPop,1) term in this case one (year), this gives me the end population for the analysis.
InitialPop<-matrix(c(500,0,0,0,0,0,0)) matmult<-function(InitialPop,N){ mat3<-matrix(c(0,rnorm(1,0.6021,0.0987),0,0,0,0,0,0,0,rnorm(1,0.6021,0.0987),0,0,0,0,1.9,0,0,rnorm(1,0.6021,0.0987),0,0,0,4.8,0,0,0,rnorm(1,0.6021,0.0987),0,0,9.7,0,0,0,0,rnorm(1,0.6021,0.0987),0,18,0,0,0,0,0,rnorm(1,0.6021,0.0987),32.6,0,0,0,0,0,0),nrow=7) for (i in 1:N){ PVAmatrix<-matrix(c(0,rnorm(1,0.6021,0.0987),0,0,0,0,0,0,0,rnorm(1,0.6021,0.0987),0,0,0,0,1.9,0,0,rnorm(1,0.6021,0.0987),0,0,0,4.8,0,0,0,rnorm(1,0.6021,0.0987),0,0,9.7,0,0,0,0,rnorm(1,0.6021,0.0987),0,18,0,0,0,0,0,rnorm(1,0.6021,0.0987),32.6,0,0,0,0,0,0),nrow=7) mat3<-mat3%*%PVAmatrix } ans<-mat3 %*% InitialPop return(ans) } matmult(InitialPop,1) The problem i have is to repeat this process say 1000 times and store this output in a format I can export easily whilst maintaining the randomness of the result, so that every end population is different. Any help would be brilliant Tom Chris Stubben wrote: > > > RFish wrote: >> >> I new to using R and am struggling with some matrix multiplication. >> > > I'm not sure what you're trying to print, but you could place this vector > in an expression > > mat3<-expression(c(0,rnorm(1,0.6021,0.0987),0,0,0,0,0,0,0,rnorm(1,0.6021,0.0987),0,0,0,0,1.9,0,0,rnorm(1,0.6021,0.0987),0,0,0,4.8,0,0,0,rnorm(1,0.6021,0.0987),0,0,9.7,0,0,0,0,rnorm(1,0.6021,0.0987),0,18,0,0,0,0,0,rnorm(1,0.6021,0.0987),32.6,0,0,0,0,0,0)) > > # and then evaluate to get a new matrix each time > matrix(eval(mat3), nrow=7) > > #I think this may be easier to follow. First create a matrix of zeros, > stick in fertilities and then add random survival probabilities each time > > > mat3<-diag(0,7) > #fertilities > mat3[1,3:7]<-c(1.9, 4.8, 9.7, 18, 32.6) > # random survival on sub-diagonal > mat3[row(mat3)==col(mat3)+1]<-rnorm(6,0.6021,0.0987) > > > # and if you want to project the population over 10 time steps in a loop ? > > n<-matrix(c(500,0,0,0,0,0,0)) > > popsize <- matrix(numeric(7 * 10), nrow = 7) > for (i in 1:10) { > popsize[, i] <- n > mat3[row(mat3)==col(mat3)+1]<-rnorm(6,0.6021,0.0987) > n <- mat3 %*% n > } > > > [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] > [,8] > [1,] 500 0.0000 0.0000 531.6256 709.89940 940.19337 1697.52862 > 3403.6610 > [2,] 0 352.5116 0.0000 0.0000 298.97874 424.71160 561.32525 > 1027.1605 > [3,] 0 0.0000 279.8029 0.0000 0.00000 231.45988 316.83352 > 424.8883 > [4,] 0 0.0000 0.0000 147.8957 0.00000 0.00000 136.36804 > 220.7370 > [5,] 0 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 96.92715 0.00000 0.00000 > 108.6551 > [6,] 0 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.00000 69.87527 0.00000 > 0.0000 > [7,] 0 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.00000 0.00000 65.86229 > 0.0000 > > > Chris Stubben > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Matrix-multiplication-and-random-numbers-tp25365184p25403899.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.