[R] replacing double for loops with apply's

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Please make the posting reproduciblea dn self-contained.
I have added library(Hmisc) and set.seed(1) to satisfy that.

Note that wts = wts/sum(wts) is unnecessary and try this:

library(Hmisc)
set.seed(1)
x <- matrix(rnorm(200), 10, 20)
f <- function(i) {
      if (i < 5) { 0 * x[1, ]
      } else apply(x[1:i,], 2, wtd.var, weights = (0.5)^(i-seq(i)),
normwt = TRUE ,
            na.rm = TRUE)
}
t(sapply(1:nrow(x), f))
	

On 7/23/07, Young Cho <young.stat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am doing double for loops to calculate SDs with some weights and wondering
> if I can get rid of the outer for loop as well. I made a simple examples
> which is essentially what I am doing.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> -Young
>
> #------------------------------------------------------
>  # wtd.var is Hmisc package
> # you can replace the 3 lines inside for loop as
> # sdx[i,] = apply(x[(i-4):i,],2,var,na.rm=T)
> # -------------------------------------------------------
>
> x = matrix(rnorm(200),10,20)
> sdx = matrix(0,10,20)
> for(i in 5:nrow(x)){
>                wts = ( 0.5 )^(i-c(1:i))
>                wts = wts/sum(wts)
>                sdx[i,] = apply(x[1:i,],2,wtd.var,weights=wts,normwt=T,
> na.rm=T)
> }
>
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