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On Dec 24, 2009, at 12:46 AM, Francesco Napolitano wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to learn R after years of Matlab's experience. Here is an > issue I couldn't solve today. > > Consider the following piece of code (written by memory): > > for(i in 1:n){ > submat <- data[1:i,] > C <- colSums(submat) > } > > The problem is that at the first iteration, data[1:1,] reduces to a > vector and colSums returns an error. This sounds really strange to me > because a sum-over-columns operation should have no problem working with > columns of length 1. Matlab's "sum()" works just fine in such case. > > The error says that I need an at least 2D array. So I try using > matrix(data[1:i,]). Unfortunately this returns a column instead of a > row. So I could do t(matrix(data[1:i,])), but this would transpose the > also the sub-matrices from the 2nd iteration on. I could fix everything > with some "if" but it would be really terrible code :-/. > > I'm sure I'm missing something because my neurons stick with Matlab > behaviour. Can you help me to understand what's wrong with my reasoning? > > Thank you very much, > Francesco. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.