[R] creating lists of random matrices

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

I also thought of replicate() but it creates an 2x2x5 array, not a list.
Maybe it's all the same for the OP.

Rui Barradas

Em 09-11-2016 18:41, Marc Schwartz escreveu:
>
>> On Nov 9, 2016, at 12:32 PM, Evan Cooch <evan.cooch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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...
>
>
> Hi,
>
> See ?replicate
>
> Example:
>
> ## Create a list of 5 2x2 matrices
>
>> replicate(5, matrix(rnorm(4), 2, 2))
> , , 1
>
>             [,1]      [,2]
> [1,] -0.1695775 1.0306685
> [2,]  0.1636667 0.1044762
>
> , , 2
>
>             [,1]      [,2]
> [1,] -0.3098566 2.1758363
> [2,] -0.8029768 0.9697776
>
> , , 3
>
>             [,1]      [,2]
> [1,]  0.5702972 0.7165806
> [2,] -0.9731331 0.8332827
>
> , , 4
>
>             [,1]       [,2]
> [1,] -0.8089588 0.09195256
> [2,] -0.2026994 0.67545827
>
> , , 5
>
>            [,1]       [,2]
> [1,] 0.5093008 -0.3097362
> [2,] 0.6467358  0.3536414
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
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