Hi,
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:08 PM, karena <dr.jz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I need to create 10 matrices. say matrix 1-10.
>
> matrix_1 is 1 by 1
> matrix_2 is 2 by 2
> matrix_3 is 3 by 3
> .
> .
> .
> matrix_10 is 10 by 10
>
> I am just wondering if there are some functions in R that are similar to the
> macro variables in SAS. so I can create these 10 matrices by doing:
> for (i in 1: 10) {
> matrix_$i <- matrix(nrow=i, ncol=i)
> }
>
> rather thank creating these matrices one by one manually.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
I believe the most idiomatic R way is to make a list of length 10:
R> mats <- lapply(1:10, function(x) matrix(0, nrow=x, ncol=x))
Then reference them like so:
R> mats[[1]]
If you *really* want them to be in your global namespace, you have two options:
1. You can slightly modify the `mat` list I made above with more
"variable-friendly" names and then `attach` it (or use `with`):
R> names(mats) <- paste("m", 1:10, sep="")
R> attach(mats)
R> m2
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 0 0
[2,] 0 0
2. Or you could forget the `lapply` from above use `assign` in a for loop:
R> for (i in 1:10) {
assign(sprintf('mat%d', i), matrix(0, nrow=i, ncol=i))
}
R> mat2
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 0 0
[2,] 0 0
Other notes: using "attach" isn't really best practice -- look into using `with`
Documentation you should read:
?lapply
?attach
?with
?assign
-steve
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