?cumsum can help you m1 <- cbind(1:5,1:5,1:5) m2 <- m1 for(i in 2:ncol(m1)){ m2[,i]=apply(m1[,1:i],1,sum) } m3 <- t(apply(m1, 1, cumsum)) all.equal(m2, m3)
HTH, Thierry ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium Research Institute for Nature and Forest team Biometrics & Quality Assurance Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium tel. + 32 54/436 185 thierry.onkel...@inbo.be www.inbo.be To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] Namens Eleni Rapsomaniki > Verzonden: woensdag 14 april 2010 14:18 > Aan: r-help@r-project.org > Onderwerp: [R] Running cumulative sums in matrices > > > Dear R-helpers, > > I have a huge data-set so need to avoid for loops as much as > possible. Can someone think how I can compute the result in > the following example (that uses a for-loop) using some > version of apply instead (or any other similarly > super-efficient function)? > > example: > #Suppose a matrix: > m1=cbind(1:5,1:5,1:5) > > #The aim is to create a new matrix with every column > containing the cumulative sum of all previous columns. > m2=m1 > for(i in 2:ncol(m1)){ > m2[,i]=apply(m1[,1:i],1,sum) > } > m2 > > Many thanks in advance > > Eleni Rapsomaniki > > Research Associate > Strangeways Research Laboratory > Department of Public Health and Primary Care University of Cambridge > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > Druk dit bericht a.u.b. niet onnodig af. Please do not print this message unnecessarily. Dit bericht en eventuele bijlagen geven enkel de visie van de schrijver weer en binden het INBO onder geen enkel beding, zolang dit bericht niet bevestigd is door een geldig ondertekend document. The views expressed in this message and any annex are purely those of the writer and may not be regarded as stating an official position of INBO, as long as the message is not confirmed by a duly signed document. ______________________________________________ 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.