Hello
Suppose I have a matrix mat=(1:16,2)
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,] 1 5 9 13
[2,] 2 6 10 14
[3,] 3 7 11 15
[4,] 4 8 12 16
there is a vector end=c(2,3,1,3)
#coerce the 1st 2 numbers of the 1st column to a vector [1] 1 2
#coerce the 1st 3 numbers of the 2nd column and append it to the previous
vector [1] 1 2 5 6 7
#coerce the 1st number of the 3rd column and append it to the previous vector
[1] 1 2 5 6 7 9
#coerce the 1st 3 numbers of the 4th column and append it to the previous
vector [1] 1 2 5 6 7 9 13 14 15
#they are specified by vector end
a for loop
mat<-matrix(1:16,4)
end<-c(2,3,1,3)
vec<-numeric()
for (i in 1:4)
{vec<-c(vec,mat[1:end[i],i])
}
#the result
> vec
[1] 1 2 5 6 7 9 13 14 15
but when I want to do it to a large dataset, it's inefficiency becomes a
problem, so need vectorization
Thank you in advance
Yours sincerely
ZhaoXing
Department of Health Statistics
West China School of Public Health
Sichuan University
No.17 Section 3, South Renmin Road
Chengdu, Sichuan 610041
P.R.China
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