Create a new variable and concatenation inside a "for" loop
On Apr 28, 2016, at 4:51 AM, Gordon, Fabiana <fabiana.gordon at imperial.ac.uk> wrote: Maybe I wasn't clear about my query. I'm very familiar with pre-allocation and vectorization and I had already wrote an R code for this problem in this way. My question wasn't about the most efficient way to solve the problem. It was about whether in R it was possible to use the same index used in the loop to create a new variable and store the results in as in the example showed below. The use of ?c? was because I was using Matlab, otherwise I know that a new variable shouldn?t have the same name as the name of a function. Regards, Fabiana
On April 27, 2016 3:25:14 PM GMT+01:00, "Gordon, Fabiana" <fabiana.gordon at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
Hello, Suppose the you need a loop to create a new variable , i.e., you are not reading data from outside the loop. This is a simple example in Matlab code, for i=1:5 r1=randn r2=randn r=[r1 r2] c(i,:)=r; % creation of each row of c , % the ":" symbol indicates all columns. In R this would be [i,] end
It is possible.
If the object `c` exists then you can address and assign in the manner you request and in this case we would assume that `c` has 2 columns
for i=1:5 {
r1=rnorm(1)
r2=rnorm(1)
r= c(r1, r2) # c() being used as the concatenation function
c[ i, ] =r
}
The output of interest is c which I'm creating inside the "for" loop -also the index used in the loop is used to create c. In R I had to create c as an empty vector (numeric() ) outside the loop, otherwise I get an error message saying that c doesn't exit. The other issue is the concatenation. In each iteration I'm creating the rows of c by placing the new row (r) below the previous one so that c becomes a 5 x 2 matrix. In R, it seems that I have no choice but use the function "rbind".
If you are "adding" rows then you do need to use rbind. If you predimension which would always be faster in the long run, then you use "["
I managed to write this code in R . However, I'm not sure that if instead of creating a new variable using the index in the "for" loop , I wanted to use the index to read data, e.g. suppose I have a 2 X 10 matrix X and suppose I want to calculate the sin () for each 2 x 2 sub-matrix of and stored in a matrix A. Then the code would be something like this,
There's an array class in R that would allow addressing 2 x 2 slices.
for i=1:5 A(:, 2*i-1:2*i)= sin(X(:, 2*i-1:2*i)) % the ":" symbol indicates all rows end
Since `sin` is vectorized (in the R meaning of the term) and A is either a matrix or an array, you could just do this: A <- sin(X)
Many Thanks, Fabiana Dr Fabiana Gordon Senior Statistical Consultant Statistical Advisory Service, School Of Public Health, Imperial College London 1st Floor, Stadium House, 68 Wood Lane, London W12 7RH.
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