On 31 August 2006 at 15:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What is the R way of computing cumulative growth rates given a series of | discrete values indexed . | | For instance, given a matrix of 20 observations for each of 5 series (zz), | what is the most straight forward technique in R for computing cumulative | growth (zzcum) ? | It seems for the solution I'm after might be imbedding the following cum | growth rate calc as a function into a function call to apply, mapply, ...? | | | | zz = rnorm(100) | dim(zz) = c(20,5) | zz | zzcum=matrix(nrow=20,ncol=5) | zzcum | zzcum[1,]=100*(1+zz[1,]/100) | zzcum | for(i in 2:20){zzcum[i,] = zzcum[i-1,]*(1+zz[i,]/100)} | zzcum
How about cumprod() inside apply() ? zzcum <- matrix(rnorm(100), ncol=5) apply(zzcum/100 + 1, 2, cumprod) Hth, Dirk -- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.