Extracting elements from a matrix using a vector containing indices
On 07-05-2013, at 06:39, Mark Coletti <mcoletti at gmail.com> wrote:
I have a matrix of data that has a corresponding vector of indices. I would like to use those indices to extract specific matrix elements into a new vector. In other words, I have an R X C matrix with a corresponding vector of C elements that have numbers mapping into specific elements of the matrix. I'd like to generate a new vector C long that contains those elements.
It's not clear what you want. The vector C contains row numbers or column numbers?
My first approach is to iteratively grind through each matrix column to manually extract the element corresponding to that column as referenced by the appropriate index, and then appending that to a vector.
So you want to extract a single element from each column? Your matrix is Mat and the vector is called vec Mat[vec,] should do it. If this is not what you want you will have to be more specific. Berend
However, my R instincts are that any time one has to craft a for loop to do something in R that you are very likely Doing It Wrong; there's probably a very simple one liner in R that will do all that that for loop would do. I know there must be a simple "R way" to do this, but I remain flummoxed on how to do so. I've been feebly poking at the plyr package's maplyr() and colwise() since I have a matrix and want to extract an array from it, and this is inherently a column wise operation, so ... hmm. Should I just give up and use a for loop? -- mcoletti at gmail.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
______________________________________________ R-help at 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.