Hello all,
Firstly, thanks a lot for all your efforts, the cbind function was very useful. I tried all you told me, but I couldn't make it work in the way I wanted. I mixed two problems I had, a common mistake. Sorry if I didn't explain myself good enough. Here, I post a solution for my problem. I wanted to avoid the "while" loop but I've finally used it. Hopefully it is helpfull for someone else. CODE: ------------------------------- # This could be my data: VD1 <- c(12, 34, 45, 7, 67, 45) VD2 <- c(23, 12, 45, 67, 89, 90) VD3 <- c(14, 11, 10, 19, 20, 27) VD4 <- c(16, 22, 23, 29, 27, 28) # and this is my objective: # (in this case it is just for 4 vectors) AIM <- matrix(c(VD1, VD2, VD3, VD4), nrow=4, byrow=TRUE) print(AIM) # but I want to use any number of vectors # VDx when x goes from 1 to n n <- 4 # for this case. # A solution: # build an empty matrix with the desired number of rows (vectors) # then with a "while" loop fill each row with each vector. Final.matrix <- matrix(, nrow=n, ncol=6, byrow=TRUE) print(Final.matrix) y <- 1 while (y <= n) { c <- eval(parse(text=(paste("VD", sep="", y)))) Final.matrix[y,] <- c y <- y + 1 } print(Final.matrix) # If I set "n" as 12 I will get the example I explained at first # then, by using "cbind()" and "1:n" I add the values of the first column # as many of you suggested to me --------------------------------------- If someone comes up with a way to do this avoiding the loop, I'd be very interested to get to know the solution. Kind regards, Vilen Forestry Engineer ______________________________________________ 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.