Re: [R] Variable number of loops

2015-05-16 Thread Jim Lemon
Hi all, Given the number of help requests that involve permutations/combinations, and the less than obvious naming of the expand.grid function, perhaps adding an alias such as "permute.elements" or "combine.elements" might ease the tasks of both searchers and those offering help. Neither of the abo

Re: [R] Variable number of loops

2015-05-16 Thread Bert Gunter
1. Please always reply to the list unless there is a compelling reason to keep the discussion private. You will have a better chance of getting something useful that way. 2. I don't know what you mean by "I don't have a fixed number of variables." You have to specify at least the number of variabl

Re: [R] Variable number of loops

2015-05-16 Thread Bert Gunter
Are you trying to reinvent ?expand.grid ? -- Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certainly not wisdom." Clifford Stoll On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 1:40 PM, WRAY NICHOLAS wrote: > I am tryi

[R] Variable number of loops

2015-05-16 Thread WRAY NICHOLAS
I am trying to build a programme which will work out the permutations of a number of variables, eg a=0 to 1, b=0 to 1, and c=0 to 2, so permutations would be (0,0,0), (1,0,0), (0,1,0)... etc In this case there would be 2 x 2x 3 = 12 permutations. If the number of variables are fixed it's easy to l