[R] Summing x1 to x6

[Florent D.]

>> I tried to be clever by trying get(paste(paste("x", 1:6, sep=""), collapse="+")) but it didn't work.
Maybe you meant something like this:
sapply(paste("x", 1:6, sep=""), function(x)mean(get(x)))



On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:30 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Dec 19, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Pablo wrote:
>
>> Suppose I have the following:
>>
>> x1<-as.vector(rnorm(10))
>> x2<-as.vector(rnorm(10))
>> x3<-as.vector(rnorm(10))
>> x4<-as.vector(rnorm(10))
>> x5<-as.vector(rnorm(10))
>> x6<-as.vector(rnorm(10))
>> x7<-as.vector(rnorm(10))
>> x8<-as.vector(rnorm(10))
>> x9<-as.vector(rnorm(10))
>> x10<-as.vector(rnorm(10))
>>
>> I would like the mean of x1 to x6 for each vector position.
>
>
>> apply( data.frame(x1,x2,x3,x4,x5,x6), 1, mean)
>  [1] -0.39321854 -0.92940746 -0.04843466 -0.27764111  0.44058599  0.73512759
>  [7] -0.22232332 -0.89535287 -0.33430655  0.66217526
>> apply( matrix(c(x1,x2,x3,x4,x5,x6),ncol=6), 1, mean)
>  [1] -0.39321854 -0.92940746 -0.04843466 -0.27764111  0.44058599  0.73512759
>  [7] -0.22232332 -0.89535287 -0.33430655  0.66217526
>
> After seeing Jim Holtman's suggestion, it should be clear that rowMeans
> would work just even better than these `apply` solutions when used with this
> "vertical" orientation of the vectors.
>
>
>
>> I would do
>> something else with x7-x10.  These vectors are not currently in a
>> dataframe.
>> I tried to be clever by trying get(paste(paste("x", 1:6, sep=""),
>> collapse="+")) but it didn't work.  Any thoughts are greatly appreciated,
>>
>
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> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT
>
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