[R] extract element, row, etc from general array structure

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Jason Turner <jasont at indigoindustrial.co.nz> writes:

> Since we don't know in advance how many dimensions foo will have,
> and the last dimension is the one we're interested in, how do
> we express in R:
>   if it's a vector, get foo[5],
>   if it's a matrix, get foo[,5],
>   if it's a 3d array, get foo[,,5], 
>   ...
> without being so ugly or having an arbitrary upper limit based on how
> many "if" statements I was prepared to type?
> 
> If there's no elegant way, I'll work around it by keeping records
> of data size, and pushing structures back to vectors when I 
> need to automatically pull segments of data out.  If there's an 
> easier way, I'd be most appreciative.


Something like this 

apply(foo, seq(length=length(dim(foo))-1),"[",5)

Won't work for vectors though since they don't have dim() and 1-D
arrays are probably also troublesome.

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