Dear R users, I am having some difficulty arranging some matrices and wondered if anyone could help out. As an example, consider the following matrix:
a <- matrix(1:32, nrow = 4, ncol = 8) a [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] [,8] [1,] 1 5 9 13 17 21 25 29 [2,] 2 6 10 14 18 22 26 30 [3,] 3 7 11 15 19 23 27 31 [4,] 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 I would like it to look like the following matrix: [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [1,] 1 5 9 13 [2,] 2 6 10 14 [3,] 3 7 11 15 [4,] 4 8 12 16 [5,] 17 21 25 29 [6,] 18 22 26 30 [7,] 19 23 27 31 [8,] 20 24 28 32 I can achieve this using the following: a1 <- a[, 1:4] a2 <- a[, 5:8] b <- rbind(a1, a2) However, my initial matrix often has a varibale number of columns (in multiples of 4, and I still want to split the columns into blocks of 4 and stack these). I have considered working out how many blocks the matrix must be split into using: no.blocks <- ncol(a)/4. My problem is then implementing this information to actually split the matrix up and then stack it. Any guidance on this would be much appreciated. Regards Darcy Webber ______________________________________________ R-help@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.