Thank you. It works great. Kristian
2011/9/16 R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weyla...@gmail.com> > I think changing nrow() to NROW() will get around that error. However, > this, as you can see, this goes a little astray at the end. Perhaps > something like this will work for you: > > z.ext <- rbind(z,array(0,c(9,3))) > z.out <- array(0, c(3,3,9)) > > for(i in 1:9){ > z.out[,,i] <- cbind(z.ext[c(i,i+3,i+6),]) > } > print(z.out) > > Hope this helps, > > Michael Weylandt > > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Kristian Lind < > kristian.langgaard.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm solve a problem where I want to select every 3rd row from a matrix. I >> do >> this for all rows in a loop. This gives me "i" matrices with different >> number of rows >> >> I want to stack these matrices in an array and fill the blanks with zero. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about this? >> >> So i want to go from >> >> [,1] [,2] [,3] >> [1,] 1 1 1 >> [2,] 2 2 2 >> [3,] 3 3 3 >> [4,] 4 4 4 >> [5,] 5 5 5 >> [6,] 6 6 6 >> [7,] 7 7 7 >> [8,] 8 8 8 >> [9,] 9 9 9 >> >> to >> >> , , 1 >> >> [,1] [,2] [,3] >> [1,] 1 1 1 >> [2,] 4 4 4 >> [3,] 7 7 7 >> >> , , 2 >> >> [,1] [,2] [,3] >> [1,] 2 2 2 >> [2,] 5 5 5 >> [3,] 8 8 8 >> >> , , 3 >> >> [,1] [,2] [,3] >> [1,] 3 3 3 >> [2,] 6 6 6 >> [3,] 9 9 9 >> >> , , 4 >> >> [,1] [,2] [,3] >> [1,] 4 4 4 >> [2,] 7 7 7 >> [3,] 0 0 0 >> >> ... >> >> , , 9 >> >> [,1] [,2] [,3] >> [1,] 9 9 9 >> [2,] 0 0 0 >> [3,] 0 0 0 >> >> >> Here's my go at it >> >> z <- array(c(1:9), c(9,3)) >> z1 <- array(0, c(3,3,9)) >> for(i in 1:9){ >> if(nrow(z[seq(i,9,3),]) == 2) >> z1[,,i] <- rbind(z[seq(i,9,3),],c(0,0,0)) >> else >> z1[,,i] <- z[seq(i,9,3),] >> } >> print(z1) >> >> I get the following error: Error in if (nrow(z[seq(i, 9, 3), ]) == 2) z1[, >> , >> i] <- rbind(z[seq(i, : >> argument is of length zero >> >> This is because nrow(z[seq(i, 9, 3) becomes NULL. >> Furthermore, this doesn't take care of the case where nrow(z[seq(i,9,3),]) >> ==1 >> >> Sorry for the long email and thank you in advance for reading it ;) >> >> Kristian >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.