[R] Stacking of vectors to form a column vector

[Olufemi Bolarinwa]

Thank you. your suggestions all worked.
Best Regards 
 


     On Thursday, 30 April 2015, 11:52, Bert Gunter <gunter.berton at gene.com> wrote:
   

 ... and if this is what is wanted, somewhat cleaner and more
generalizable for programming would be:

do.call(c, mydata[,1:3])

## where the column indices might have to be adjusted to get the
desired columns.

Cheers,

Bert

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On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:51 PM, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Olufemi,
> I sounds like you have a data frame (let's call it "mydata") with at
> least three elements (columns). You may be trying to use c() in this
> way:
>
> y1to3<-c(y1,y2,y3)
>
> in which case it won't work. However:
>
> y1to3<-c(mydata$y1,mydata$y2,mydata$y3)
>
> might do what you want, substituting whatever the name of your data
> frame is for "mydata".
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Jeff Newmiller
> <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>> I am sure you can use c() because columns may be vectors even though vectors are not columns, but you really need to follow the posting guide and provide a reproducible example for us to show you how. You might find [1] helpful, in particular as it describes the use of the dput function to give us a few rows of your data.
>>
>> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example
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>> On April 29, 2015 7:48:24 PM PDT, Olufemi Bolarinwa <dafemlions at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>Thank you Jeff for your response.
>>>My y1, y2, y3 are actually 3 columns in the data so I cannot use the
>>>c() function to concatenate them. I am confusing the "columns" with
>>>vectors. I actually meant columns.
>>>Any help will be much appreciated
>>>Olufemi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Wednesday, 29 April 2015, 22:31, Jeff Newmiller
>>><jdnewmil at dcn.davis.CA.us> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>Vectors are not "columns" or "rows". Use the c() function to
>>>concatenate vectors.
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>>>On April 29, 2015 6:56:46 PM PDT, Olufemi Bolarinwa
>>><dafemlions at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>Hello,I am estimating a system of nonlinear equation where I need to
>>>>stack my vector of y. I have data of about 6000units. I tried using
>>>the
>>>>rbind but instead of having a vector of 1 by 18000, it is giving me a
>>>3
>>>>by 6000 so that my matrix multiplication is non-conformable. The stack
>>>>command requires an identifier but in this case, I do not have a
>>>unique
>>>>identifier.
>>>>I would like to stack the the first 6000 units of y1 on the 2nd 6000
>>>>units of y2 and 6000 units of y3.
>>>>Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>>>>ThanksOlufemi
>>>>
>>>>
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