[R] vectorizing an iterative process.

[Geoffrey Zhu]

Hi Richard,

3D is automatically generated by the mailing list software, probably
because I had ] followed by =3D without a space in the original post. 

What I meant was to calculate x[i] =3D x[i-1] + y[i-1] 

For example, if X <- 1:10

Then I want the vector Y to be 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45, 55, or
in other words Y[i] =3D y[i-1] + x[i]. 

Yes, cumsum does the trick for this. This is what I need. Thanks.

Just curious, do you know how to calculate the more generic x[i] <- f(
x[i-1], y[i-1] )?

Thanks,
Geoffrey



-----Original Message-----
From: Richard M. Heiberger [mailto:rmh at temple.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 9:56 AM
To: Geoffrey Zhu; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] vectorizing an iterative process.

> x[i]=3D3Dx[i-1]+y[i-1] for all i, how can I do this without a loop? 

It looks like
   x <- cumsum(y)

What does 3D mean?



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