On 1 September 2006 at 14:59, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
|
| On 1 September 2006 at 14:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| | The apply with the cumprod was exactly what I was after. The apply just
| | wasn't clicking with me, and I had overlooked the cumprod. Thanks to all
| | for pushing me down the right path!
| |
| | Actually, what I am ultimately after is a way to link this series, without
| | having to use a for loop ( the only way I can think of ... ). But, would
| | like to see if it can be linked using mapply or apply against the rows
| | and to compute the linked results.
| |
| | zz = matrix(rnorm(20), ncol=2)
| | zzcum = apply(zz/100 + 1, 2, cumprod)
| | zzlinkcum = 100*zzcum
| | for(i in 2:length(zz[,1])){ zzlinkcum[i,]=zzlinkcum[i-1,]*zzcum[i,]} ###
| | Is there a better way here ?
|
| Sure, why not call apply again?
|
| > set.seed(42); zz <- matrix(rnorm(20), ncol=2)
| > zzcum <- apply(1+zz/100, 2, cumprod)
| > apply(rbind(c(1,1), zzcum), 2, cumprod)*100
Small mistake, that compounds twice. You probably want
> set.seed(42)
> zz <- matrix(rnorm(20), ncol=2)
> apply( rbind(c(1,1), zz/100+1), 2, cumprod)*100
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 100.0000 100.00000
[2,] 101.3710 101.30487
[3,] 100.7985 103.62135
[4,] 101.1645 102.18220
[5,] 101.8048 101.89732
[6,] 102.2163 101.76147
[7,] 102.1079 102.40863
[8,] 103.6512 102.11753
[9,] 103.5531 99.40482
[10,] 105.6433 96.97888
[11,] 105.5770 98.25911
>
Hth, Dirk
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