[R] for loop populate matrix

[Chris English]

Indeed! Your example works perfectly.
I think I was using the for-loop to try to address cases where thesize of the matrix was unknown. But your suggestion works forarbitrary sizes, just have to know the range of values to rep (repeat) and have"each" and "ncol" equal.
Thank you.ChrisMy apologies to Dennis for direct reply, I'm not used to using 'reply all': tales of havoc wrought
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> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 11:19:51 -0700
> Subject: Re: [R] for loop populate matrix
> From: djmuser at gmail.com
> To: sglish at hotmail.com
> CC: r-help at r-project.org
>
> Why loop?
>
> matrix(rep(3:0, each = 5), ncol = 5, byrow = TRUE)
> [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
> [1,] 3 3 3 3 3
> [2,] 2 2 2 2 2
> [3,] 1 1 1 1 1
> [4,] 0 0 0 0 0
>
> HTH,
> Dennis
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Chris English  wrote:
> >
> > Dear List,
> > I am trying to populate a matrix using a for loop.This works.
> >> four<- matrix(nrow=4,ncol=5)> for (j in 1:ncol(four)){+ for (i in 1:nrow(four)){+ four[i,j]<-i-1}+ }> print(four)á á á[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5][1,] á á0 á á0 á á0 á á0 á á0[2,] á á1 á á1 á á1 á á1 á á1[3,] á á2 á á2 á á2 á á2 á á2[4,] á á3 á á3 á á3 á á3 á á3
> > What I would like is the inverse ofthe above, i.e.: á á [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5][1,] á á 3 á á3 á á3 á á3 á á3[2,] á á 2 á á2 á á2 á á2 á á2[3,] á á 1 á á1 á á1 á á1 á á1[4,] á á 0 á á0 á á0 á á0 á á0
> > and can't seem to get there. áThanks,Chris
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