I have encountered this problem on several occasions and am not sure how to handle it. I use for-loops to cycle through datasets. When each dataset is of equal length, it works fine as I can combine the datasets and have each loop pick up a different column, but when the datasets are differing lengths, I am struggling. Here is an example: A<-1:10 B<-1:15 C<-1:18
Set1<-data.frame(A,runif(10)) Set2<-data.frame(B,runif(15)) Set3<-data.frame(C,runif(18)) for (i in 1:3){ if (i==1) Data<-Set1 else if (i==2) Data<-Set2 else Data<-Set3 dev.new() plot(Data[,1],Data[,2]) } I don't always want to plot them and instead do other things, such as fit a non-linear equation to the dataset, etc. I end up using that "if" statement to cycle through the datasets and was hoping there is an easier method. Maybe one would be to add extra zeros until they are the same length and then take out the extra zeros in the first step. Any help would be appreciated. ----- In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice, they are not - Albert Einstein -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/For-loop-to-cycle-through-datasets-of-differing-lengths-tp3987308p3987308.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.