You didn't indicate what you want to do with the 101st observation. Arun's solution creates an 11th group and divides by the number in the group(1), while Jessica's solution creates an 11th column and divides by 10.
> test[101] <- 100 > unlist(lapply(split(test,((seq_along(test)-1)%/% 10)+1),mean)) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 8 9 10 11 0.146375 0.000000 0.194500 100.000000 > x<-matrix(test,nrow=10) Warning message: In matrix(test, nrow = 10) : data length [101] is not a sub-multiple or multiple of the number of rows [10] > apply(x,2,mean) [1] 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 [8] 0.146375 0.000000 0.194500 10.000000 Another approach would be to use aggregate: > Groups <- gl(ceiling(length(test)/10), 10)[1:length(test)] > aggregate(test, list(Groups), mean) Group.1 x 1 1 0.000000 2 2 0.000000 3 3 0.000000 4 4 0.000000 5 5 0.000000 6 6 0.000000 7 7 0.000000 8 8 0.146375 9 9 0.000000 10 10 0.194500 11 11 100.000000 ---------------------------------------------- David L Carlson Associate Professor of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4352 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Jessica Streicher > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:13 AM > To: Wim Kreinen > Cc: r-help > Subject: Re: [R] summarise subsets of a vector > > Or maybe > > x<-matrix(test,nrow=10) > apply(x,2,mean) > > > On 23.01.2013, at 00:09, Wim Kreinen wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have vector called test. And now I wish to measure the mean of the > first > > 10 number, the second 10 numbers etc > > How does it work? > > Thanks Wim > > > >> dput (test) > > c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, > > 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, > > 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, > > 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.71, 0.21875, 0, 0.27375, 0.26125, > > 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.84125, > > 0.0575, 0.92625, 0.12, 0, 0) > > > > [[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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.