[R] need help with matrix manipulation

[Gabor Grothendieck]

This will give a list, one element per row of oz.gmt, which
contains the differently sized vectors as components:

idx <- seq(along = start.hr)
f <- function(i) oz.gmt[i, start.hr[i]:24]
lapply(idx, f)


On 12/5/05, Jaramillo, Renee <rjaramillo at constellagroup.com> wrote:
> I hope my problem is not too basic to post here.  I am a beginner having
> problems with some matrix manipulation.  The data I am working with are
> sites with hourly ozone readings and is in a matrix where each row is a site
> and each column is an hourly reading.  So for 10 sites, one day's worth of
> data is a 10x24 matrix - column 1 is the ozone measurement for midnight GMT,
> column 2 is ozone at 1:00am GMT, etc.
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> My challenge is that I want to create a new matrix with the same sites, BUT
> I want the first column to be the hourly ozone reading at midnight LOCAL
> time.  If all the sites were in the same time zone this would be easy - for
> the US Eastern time zone I could do something like:
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> oz.est[, 1:19] <- oz.gmt[, 6:24]
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> The problem is the sites are in different time zones, and I have a separate
> vector that indicates which site belongs to which time zone.  So sites in
> the Eastern time zone I want to extract columns 6-24 from the GMT matrix,
> sites in the Central time zone I want to extract columns 7-24 from the GMT
> matrix, etc.
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> Is there a clever way to use matrix indices on my GMT matrix to extract the
> columns I need for the sites in the different time zones?  I have been
> trying different things like this:
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> # VECTOR WITH HOUR TIME DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SITE AND GMT
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> start.hr <- c(6,7,6,8,7,5,7,6,5,6)
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> # THIS DOESN'T WORK
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> oz.local[ , 1: (24-start.hr) ]  <-  oz.gmt [, (start.hr+1) : 24 ]
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> # THIS DOESN'T WORK EITHER
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> oz.local[ , rep(1,nrow(oz.gmt)) : (24-start.hr) ]  <-  oz.gmt [,
> (start.hr+1) : rep(24,nrow(oz.gmt)) ]
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> Ultimately I will be working with over 10,000 sites and hourly data over 3
> months so my data matrix will be something like 10,220 x 2208
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> I'd appreciate any suggestions.  Thanks!
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> Renee Jaramillo
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