Consider using the indices instead of the matrices themselves. You can pass a list of indices and then reference the two matrices any way you want to compute the return value.
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Michal Szewczyk <miszewc...@tlen.pl> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am struggling to overcome following problem: > > I have matrix Vf and matrix V, which both have 3 columns and I want to > create a spline function basing on coordinates from this matrices (more > precisely coordinates of function nr 1: x are taken from Vf[,1] and y are > taken from V[,1] respectively), because function apply() base on 1 argument > I made it in this way: > > Vspline<-matrix(0,nrow=2*n,ncol=K) > Vspline<-rbind(Vf[,1:3],V[,1:3]) > > where n=5000 and it is number of rows in V and Vf matrices > and then: > > FV<-apply(Vspline,2, function(z) > splinefun(Vspline[1:n,z],Vspline[(n+1):(2*n),z], method="mono",ties=mean)) > > The problems is, that when I am running it, following error occurs: > > Error in xy.coords(x, y) : only 0's may be mixed with negative subscripts > > I was trying to run function apply replacing z with particular values, and > it worked: > > FV<-apply(Vspline,2, function(z) > splinefun(Vspline[1:n,1],Vspline[(n+1):(2*n),1], method="mono",ties=mean)) > FV<-apply(Vspline,2, function(z) > splinefun(Vspline[1:n,2],Vspline[(n+1):(2*n),2], method="mono",ties=mean)) > FV<-apply(Vspline,2, function(z) > splinefun(Vspline[1:n,3],Vspline[(n+1):(2*n),3], method="mono",ties=mean)) > > However it does not solve the problem, because I am not obtaining objects > FV[[1]], FV[[2]] and FV[[3]]. Object FV[[1]] is overwritten. > > My questions are: > Why I am obtaining such an error? > Is there any function that works like apply, but enables me to use two > matrices as input data? > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Greetings, Michal > > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/Usage-of-apply-function-with-two-matrices-tp1590442p1590442.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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? [[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.