[R] apply & incompatible dimensions error

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Your apply is trying to take the correlations of the rows of mat1 with the
columns of mat2 which, of course, does not work if they have different
numbers of columns. I think you mean to take the correlations of the columns
of mat1 with the columns of mat2.  For example, to take the correlations
of the 5 columns of mat1 with the first 4 columns of mat2 try:

> cor(mat1, mat2[,1:4])
            col1       col2       col3       col4
col1 -0.34624254 -0.2669519 -0.2705077  0.2183249
col2 -0.26553255 -0.2687643 -0.0865895  0.1819025
col3  0.19474613 -0.2334986  0.1746522  0.2326915
col4  0.09328338  0.5117784  0.2413143 -0.3374916
col5  0.27519716  0.1605331 -0.4057137  0.3282105


On 7/24/07, Bernzweig, Bruce (Consultant) <bbernzwe at bear.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've created the following two matrices (mat1 and mat2) and a function
> (f) to calculate the correlations between the two on a row by row basis.
>
>        mat1 <- matrix(sample(1:500,50), ncol = 5,
>                dimnames=list(paste("row", 1:10, sep=""),
>                paste("col", 1:5, sep="")))
>
>        mat2 <- matrix(sample(501:1000,50), ncol = 5,
>                dimnames=list(paste("row", 1:10, sep=""),
>                paste("col", 1:5, sep="")))
>
>        f <- function(x,y) cor(x,y)
>
> When the matrices are squares (# rows = # columns) I have no problems.
>
> However, when they are not (as in the example above with 5 columns and
> 10 rows), I get the following error:
>
> > apply(mat1, 1, f, y=mat2)
> Error in cor(x, y, na.method, method == "kendall") :
>        incompatible dimensions
>
> Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!
>
> - Bruce
>
>
>
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