Petr, Thanks for your suggestions. It makes sense, since I don't know how to make a matrix with different length of rows. I have a concern for this problem. I actually deal with a much bigger dataset e.g. 1000, and each dataset needs to change the number of data in it according a vector which has 1000 corresponding different values. It will be hard to deal with data one by one. Is there a way I can do them together? Sorry for not making it clear.
I am thinking I have to use 'for loop' to get a list of vectors. But I am not sure how to do it efficiently? Thanks again. Petr Pikal wrote: > > Hi > > I have no idea how you could do what you want. I only recommend you to use > list instead of matrix as list can incorporate objects with various size > > I am not sure if this is the most elegant way but you can make your matrix > a data frame > > ddd<- as.data.frame(data) > and than use thist > > lapply(ddd, function(x) unlist(list(x))) > > To get list of vectors > > Regards > Petr > > r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 01.02.2010 03:46:34: > >> >> Hello, >> >> This may be a rare question. I am struggling to solve it. I really >> appreciate any help or suggestions. Thanks a lot in advance! >> >> >> I put my questions between the code to make it clear. The problem I have > is: >> I generated 10 data sets with 8 data for each set. Now I want to change > the >> number of data in each dataset according to a vector 'size' (as > follows), >> that is, each new dataset contains different number of data. How can I > do >> it? After generating the new datasets, how can I seperate the data from > two >> distributions and calculate the sample mean? Thanks a lot. >> >> >> >> # generate 10 data sets, each data sets include 8 sample. 4 from N(0, 1) > and >> 4 from N(5, 1) >> data<- matrix(0,10,8) >> th <- c(0, 5, 1) >> for(i in 1:10){ >> data[i,] <- rnorm(8,mean= rep(th[1:2],8/2),sd=th[3]) >> } >> >> # change the number of samples for each data set. e.g. the first > dataset >> needs to increase to 20, the #first 8 keep the same, add another 12 > sample >> (6 from N(0,1) and the other 6 from N(5, 1) ), the second #dataset needs > to >> increase to 10, keep the first 8 the same, generate another 2 (one from >> N(0,1) and the #other one from N(5,1)), the third data set does not > need to >> change. etc. >> >> size=c(20, 10, 8, 14, 16, 12, 8, 80) >> >> >> # Since each data set changes to different size, and add different > number of >> data, for each dataset how #can I calculate the difference of the > sample >> mean from N(0,1) and the sample mean from >> #N(5,1) and the pooled standard deviation of two samples. Two > difficulties: >> each new dataset includes #different number of data; another difficulty, >> when I generated data, the two successive data are >> #from different normal distribution, how can I seperate them and > calculate >> the average for each sample #and pooled standard deviation? >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/how-to-generate-data-set- >> with-different-length-and-calculate-the-mean-tp1458420p1458420.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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/within-a-matrix-how-to-add-each-column-with-different-length-of-data-tp1458420p1458870.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.