[R] creating lists of random matrices

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

Try using ?lapply, its return value is a list. Note however that the 
*apply functions are loops in disguise. There's nothing wrong with your 
solution to the problem, but it's true that most R users find lapply 
more elegant, like you say.

hold <- lapply(1:5, function(x) matrix(rnorm(4),2,2) )

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 09-11-2016 18:32, Evan Cooch escreveu:
> So, its easy enough to create a random matrix, using something like (say)
>
> matrix(rnorm(4),2,2)
>
> which generates a (2x2) matrix with random N(0,1) in each cell.
>
> But, what I need to be able to do is create a 'list' of such random
> matrices, where the length of the list (i.e., the number of said random
> matrices I store in the list) is some variable I can pass to the
> function (or loop).
>
> I tried the obvious like
>
> hold <- list()
> for (i in 1:5) {
>      hold[[i]] <- matrix(rnorm(4),2,2)
>      }
>
>
> While this works, it seems inelegant, and I'm wondering if there is a
> better (more efficient) way to accomplish the same thing -- perhaps
> avoiding the loop.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
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