[R] Applying a function to a matrix using indexes as arguments

[Matteo Richiardi]

Hi David,
that's a great answer, thanks so much. I imagined apply() was involved in
the solution, but I was unable to find how myself. Thanks again.
Matteo

On 17 December 2015 at 01:37, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
wrote:

>
> > On Dec 16, 2015, at 5:34 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On Dec 16, 2015, at 4:18 PM, Matteo Richiardi <
> matteo.richiardi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have to evolve each element of a matrix W
> >>
> >> W <- matrix(0,2,3)
> >>
> >> according to some function which uses the indices of the matrix [i,j] as
> >> arguments:
> >> w.fun = function(i,j) {
> >> return A[i]*B[j]/(C[i,j])
> >> }
> >>
> >> where
> >> A<-c(100,100)
> >> B<-c(200,200,200)
> >> C <- matrix( rnorm(6,mean=0,sd=1), 2, 3)
> >>
> >> How can I do it, without recurring to a loop? Also, in my application I
> >> need to pass the function another argument.
> >
> > mapply( function( i,j,fac) {fac*A[i]*B[j]/C[i,j]},
> >         i=row(W),
> >         j=col(W),
> >         MoreArgs=list(fac=10) )
> > [1]  -86207.97  325768.16 -135764.41 -913036.95 -142509.39
> > [6]  243715.67
> >
> >
> > N.B. all of the *apply functions are really loops.
>
> Furthermore, you can neatly populate the W matrix with the `[<-` function:
>
>  W[] <- mapply( function( i,j,fac) {fac*A[i]*B[j]/C[i,j]},
>                 i=row(W), j=col(W),MoreArgs=list(fac=10) )
>
> > W
>           [,1]      [,2]      [,3]
> [1,] -86207.97 -135764.4 -142509.4
> [2,] 325768.16 -913037.0  243715.7
>
> >
>
>
> > --
> > David.
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot for your suggestions.
> >> Matteo
> >>
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> > David Winsemius
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