Message-ID: <43133565.3080403@stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2005-08-29T16:18:45Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: reexpand a matrix after subsetting
In-Reply-To: <200508291811.12899.tamir@imp.univie.ac.at>
On 8/29/2005 12:11 PM, Ido M. Tamir wrote:
> Hi,
>
> suppose I have a matrix (or dataframe)
> as a result from subsetting.
>
> mat <- matrix(1:20,ncol=2)
> mat[c(3,6,9),] <- NA
> cc <- complete.cases(mat)
> sub <- mat[cc,,drop=FALSE]
> sub <- sub * 2
> #some caluculations with sub.
>
> now I would like to expand sub somehow
> so row 3,6, and 9 would be filled with
> NAs but the rest should be in place again.
> Is there a simple function for this?
>
> merge is not an option.
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
You just need to calculate the original row numbers. For example,
goodrows <- (1:nrow(mat))[cc]
mat[goodrows,,drop=FALSE] <- sub
Duncan Murdoch