[R] sequential sum of a vector...

[Gustaf Rydevik]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth
<shubhak at ambaresearch.com> wrote:
> Hi R,
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> Let,
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> x=1:80
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> I want to sum up first 8 elements of x, then again next 8 elements of x,
> then again another 8 elements..... So, my new vector should look like:
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> c(36,100,164,228,292,356,420,484,548,612)
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> I used:
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> aggregate(x,list(rep(1:10,each=8)),sum)[-1]
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> rowsum(x,group=rep(1:10,each=8))
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> But without grouping, can I achieve the required? Any other ways of
> doing this?
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> Thanks, Shubha
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How about

x<-1:80
filter(x,rep(1,8),"convolution",sides=1)[seq(8,length(x),by=8)]
##or
cumsum(x)[seq(8,length(x),by=8)]

?

/Gustaf


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