[Rd] x[1,], x[1,,], x[1,,,], ...

[Gabor Grothendieck]

I couldn't find it:

> library(magic)
> apltake
Error: object "apltake" not found

On 11/29/05, Robin Hankin <r.hankin at noc.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
>
> apltake(x,1)
>
> [where apltake() is part of library(magic)]
>
> does this.
>
> best wishes
>
> Robin
>
>
>
>
> On 23 Nov 2005, at 10:50, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there a function in R already doing what I try to do below:
> >
> > # Let 'x' be an array with *any* number of dimensions (>=1).
> > x <- array(1:24, dim=c(2,2,3,2))
> > ...
> > x <- array(1:24, dim=c(4,3,2))
> >
> > i <- 2:3
> >
> > ndim <- length(dim(x))
> > if (ndim == 1)
> >    y <- x[i]
> > else if (ndim == 2)
> >    y <- x[i,]
> > else if (ndim == 3)
> >    y <- x[i,,]
> > else ...
> >
> > and so on.  My current solution is
> >
> > ndim <- length(dim(x))
> > args <- rep(",", ndim)
> > args[1] <- "i"
> > args <- paste(args, collapse="")
> > code <- paste("x[", args, "]", sep="")
> > expr <- parse(text=code)
> > y <- eval(expr)
> >
> > ndim <- length(dim(x))
> > args <- rep(",", ndim)
> > args[1] <- "i"
> > args <- paste(args, collapse="")
> > code <- paste("x[", args, "]", sep="")
> > expr <- parse(text=code)
> > y <- eval(expr)
> >
> > Is there another way I can do this in R that I have overlooked?
> >
> > /Henrik
> >
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