[R] matrix() Help

[Uwe Ligges]

Jonathan Wang wrote:

> I have a question related to matrix().
> 
> The code below randomly generates 3 Poisson numbers into a 3 by 1 matrix:
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>>matrix1 <- matrix(rpois(3,lambda=2),nrow=3,ncol=1)
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> And I use list() to see what they are:
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>      [,1]
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> [1,]  3
> 
> [2,]  1
> 
> [3,]  4
> 
> , which is what I had intended.


For sure you used print(), but not list() ...



> I then I want to randomly generate y Normal numbers into a 3 by 8 matrix. y in this case would be 3, 1, and 4; so the resulting matrix should be such that the first row has three different Normal numbers; the second row has 1 Normal number; and the third row has four different Normal numbers. I have the following code to do that:
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>>matrix2 <- matrix(rnorm(poisNums),nrow=3,ncol=8)
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> 
> To my surprise, matrix2 does not look anything like what I had intended. Instead, it repeats the values in the first column (of the matrix2) eight times. What part of the code do I need to fix?

You don't want to use a matrix here, but a list:

list2 <- apply(matrix1, 1, rnorm)

Please read "An Introduction to R" and learn a bit more on data 
structures in R ...

Uwe Ligges




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