[R] Help with for

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I haven't been able to solve two issues, really appreciate any help.

Q1. Why this one goes like that? (could it be a bug?):

What I want:
> J_c(1,2,3)
> MA_NA
> MA[1]_min(J[1:2])
> MA[2]_min(J[2:3])
> MA
[1] 1 2

Good, so now lets do it a little more faster (since the real vectors have
over 15000 obs):

> for (i in 1:2) MA[i]_min(J[i:i+1])
> MA
[1] 2 3

It does the same with any function instead of min.

Q2. The former type of job works better with sapply (or the like), but when
FUN returns a vector, I haven't been able to get a matrix instead of a list
(simplify=TRUE, does not make any difference). Any way to avoid converting
list into matrix after sapply??

Thank you very much,

Alex Ahgarin
Data Management Dpt.
IDS
Washington, US

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