First of all your expression 'i*j' is storing on top of one another.  Look
at what happens in the case of i=1,j=8  i=2,j=4  i=4,j=2, ....  These are
all storing to the same location.  Instead make 'mn' & 'li' matrices:

mn <- matrix(length(alist), 1000)

and then within the loop:

mn[i,j] <- value

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:52 AM, James Rome <jamesr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear kind list people:
>
> I have the following code:
> >hours
>  [1] "0"  "1"  "2"  "4"  "5"  "6"  "7"  "8"  "9"  "10" "11" "12" "13"
> "14" "15"
> [16] "16" "17" "18" "19" "20" "21" "22" "23"
> > alist
> $`0`
>  [1]  3 10 10  6  5  6  4  8  9  3  7  5  8  3  6  7  2  6  6  1  4  8
> 10  4 10
> [26] 13  6  2  8  4  7  3  4  7  9  6  4  7  4  4  4  3
>
> $`1`
> [1] 1 1 3 2 3 4 2 1
>
> $`2`
> [1] 1 1 3 3
> . . .
> mn=c(length(alist)*1000)
> il=c(length(alist)*1000)
> # Now calculate the means
> for(i in 1:length(alist)) {
>  for(j in 1:1000) {mn[i*j]=mean(sample(alist[[i]], 1000, replace=TRUE));
> il[i*j]= hours[i]}}
>
> But not even the il vector is correct:
> >il
>    [1] "0"  "1"  "2"  "4"  "5"  "6"  "7"  "8"  "9"  "10" "11" "12" "13"
> "14"
>   [15] "15" "16" "17" "18" "19" "20" "21" "22" "23" "12" "5"  "13" "9"
> "14"
>   [29] "0"  "15" "0"  "16" "11" "17" "7"  "18" "0"  "19" "13" "20" "0"
> "21"
>   [43] "0"  "22" "15" "23" "0"  "16" "7"  "10" "17" "13" "0"  "18" "11"
> "14"
>   [57] "19" "1"  "0"  "20" "0"  "1"  "21" "16" "13" "22" "0"  "17" "23"
> "14"
>   [71] "0"  "18" "0"  "1"  "15" "19" "11" "13" "0"  "20" "9"  "1"  "0"
> "21"
>  . . .
> and after a while, both mn and il get lots of NAs. The first 1000
> entries should be "0".
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> And is there a way to do this without the two for loops?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim Rome
>
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