Try this: Reduce("-", as.data.frame(embed(A$P, 2)))
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Niklaus Hurlimann <niklaus.hurlim...@unil.ch> wrote: > Hi R mailing list, > > probably a very basic problem here, I try to do the following: > >> Q<-c(1,2,3) >> P<-c(4,5,6) >> A<- data.frame(Q,P) >> A > Q P > 1 1 4 > 2 2 5 > 3 3 6 > > this is my simplified data.frame (matrix) now I try to create following > loop for subtraction of element within the data.frame: > >> for(i in length(A[,"P"]-1){ > delta[i]<- A[i,"P"]-A[i+1,"P"] > } > > All I get is a vector of the correct length but with no readings. > > Thanks for any help on this. > > > > -- > Niklaus Hürlimann > > Université de Lausanne > Institut de Minéralogie et Géochimie > L'Anthropole > CH-1015 Lausanne > Suisse > > E-mail: niklaus.hurlim...@unil.ch > Tel:+41(0)21 692 4452 > > [[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.