Hi,
I'm a newbie when it comes to R, and I'm trying to figure out how to use
vectorization as opposed to for loops. In particular, how can I create a
function that is applied on each element of a row, but can access previous
elements relative to that element?
My problem: I want to calculate something like x[i] = x[i] / x[i - 1] for
each element of a vector x:
ex.
x <- data.frame(a = c(1:10))
# incorrect
foo = function(y) {
y[n] <- y[n] / y[n-1]
}
div <- lapply(x, foo)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
-Amol Shelat
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