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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0505111831190.3399@gannet.stats>
Date: 2005-05-11T17:32:38Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: simplify loop
In-Reply-To: <3f87cc6d05051110054d65813a@mail.gmail.com>

It is, backwards, a cumulative product so you could use cumprod.

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Omar Lakkis wrote:

> Is there a way to implement this faster than doing it in a loop.
>
>        for (i in length(settle)-1:1) {
>                settle[i] = settle[i+1]/(1 + settle.pct[i+1])
>        }
>
> I want to guarantee that i+1 is calculated before i
>
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