Awesome,that worked! Thanks.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Henrique Dallazuanna <www...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Try this:
>
> mapply('/', l1, l2, SIMPLIFY = FALSE)
>
> and
>
> tapply(1:5, lapply(indxLi, as.numeric), sum)
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Rohit Pandey <rohitpandey...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello R community,
> >
> > I have two questions about using R.
> >
> > The first is about dividing each element of a list with another similar
> > sized list. So, if the first list has two elements and so does the
> second,
> > then the result should also be a list with two elements.
> >
> > For example, the inputs are:
> >
> > list(matrix(1:6,ncol=2),matrix(1:6,ncol=2))->l1
> > l2<-list(1:3,2)
> >
> > I want to get a list, l3 with the first element being l1[[1]]/l2[[1]] and
> > the second one, l1[[2]]/l2[[2]].
> >
> > I had asked a similar question before and the solution using mapply works
> > well for a list and a vector, but for two lists, it will return an array
> > (and not a list).
> >
> > My second question is about the tapply function.
> >
> > tapply(1:5,list(c(1,1,2,2,3),c(1,2,1,1,3)),sum)
> > will give me:
> >
> > 1 2 3
> > 1 1 2 NA
> > 2 7 NA NA
> > 3 NA NA 5
> > The index here is a list: list(c(1,1,2,2,3),c(1,2,1,1,3)).
> >
> > However, if I get the same index list through one of the other apply
> > functions (like by) for example,
> > indxLi<-by(rbind(c(1,1,2,2,3),c(1,2,1,1,3)),1:2,function(x){return(x)})
> > then the tapply no longer works with this list.
> > tapply(1:5,indxLi,sum) gives me the error:
> >
> > Error in sort.list(y) : 'x' must be atomic for 'sort.list'
> > Have you called 'sort' on a list?
> >
> > Is there a way to use the above list in the tapply function?
> >
> > Many thanks in advance,
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> > Rohit
> > Mob: 91 9819926213
> >
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Thanks,
Rohit
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