[R] Random number

[Sundar Dorai-Raj]

Kunal Shetty wrote:

> thank you Sundar,Andy, Partha for your prompt reply.
> 
>       as for the "%*%" is matrix multiplication problem sunder here is a sample of what i want...
> 
> x <- rnorm(100,17,24) # X values
> y <- rnorm(100,7,11)  # Y values
> 
> # since X and Y values are independent to get their
> # covariance need to multiply each of them with a Matrix say A
> 
> A <- matrix(c(10,25,8,40),nrow=2,ncol=2)
> 
>  further  i would like to assign both x and y vectors to one variale
> 
>  say z <- c(x,y)
> 
>   but if i do this  my matrix multiplication fail
> 
>     i.e  w <- A%*%z
>  Error in A %*% z : non-conformable arguments ??
> 
> 
>     so it tired multiply the  X and Y vector individually
> 
>  x<- (A%*%x)
>  y<- (A%*%y)
> 
>  
>  Error in A %*% z : non-conformable arguments ??
> 
> 
>   the error persist...sunder...
> 
>   or anybody who could direct me..?
> 

Of course this doesn't work. `A' is 2x2, `x' and `y' are 100x1, and `z' 
is 200x1 (I think I even mentioned this previously). I *think* you want 
something like:

z <- rbind(x, y) # now 2 x 100

w <- A %*% z # 2 x 100

If not, please provide an example of what you expect, possibly worked by 
hand.

HTH,

--sundar

> regards
> Kunal
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Sundar Dorai-Raj <sundar.dorai-raj at PDF.COM> wrote:
> 
>>
>>Kunal Shetty wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Dear R- User
>>>
>>>    I created  two random number sets using rnorm function and calcuted their respective means. However now I would like to randomly
>>>replace some values with NA. Thus create my own test data.
>>>      Any help or suggestions on this ?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Use ?sample:
>>n <- 100
>>x <- rnorm(n)
>>x[sample(n, 4)] <- NA
>>sum(is.na(x))
>># [1] 4
>>
>>
>>> Also wanted to confirm when multiplying two random number vectors x am y by matrix..is this how i do it.
>>>A is the matrix
>>>        
>>>       z <- c(x,y)    # x and y the two set of vectors
>>>    
>>>       w <- A%*%Z   # each element in each vector multipled by the matrix .
>>>
>>
>>(Be careful: R is case sensitive (z != Z).)
>>
>>I'm not really clear what you want here. "%*%" is matrix multiplication
>>and "*" is elementwise multiplication. Also using "c" makes a vector or
>>length "n = length(x) + length(y)". This implies that "A" above "p x n"
>>(i.e. p rows, n columns) and the result "w" would be "p x 1". Please 
>>provide an example of what you expect to see by the multiplication.
>>
>>--sundar
>>
>>
>>>regards
>>>Kunal
>>>
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