Try this also: pmin(data.set[,1:100], data.set[,101:200])/colSums(data.set[,101:200])
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Thiem Alrik <th...@sipo.gess.ethz.ch> wrote: > Dear Mailing List Members, > > the problem I've been grappling with für quite some time now is the following: > > I have a 100 rows x 200 columns matrix. > > data.set <- matrix(rnorm(20000, 100, 200)) > > Now I would like to get a vector of length 100 which collects the values from > the following procedure: > > Take the sum of the minima of the two values from each row of columns 1 and > 101, and divide it by the sum of column 101. > Do the same for column 2 and 102, 3 and 103 and so on. > > Thanks a lot for your help. > > Alrik > > ******************************************* > Alrik Thiem > Research Assistant > > WEC E17 > Weinbergstrasse 11 > Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) > and Center for Security Studies (CSS) > Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich > CH-8092 Zurich > > Tel.: 0041 44 63 20937 > th...@sipo.gess.ethz.ch > http://www.cis.ethz.ch/ > http://www.css.ethz.ch/ > ******************************************* > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O ______________________________________________ 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.