One of the things about R that you have to learn is vector operations.  You
try to avoid loops and also 'generating' variables -- this is where a list
comes in very handy.  To relate to Java, it is similar to 'struct'.  Here is
a program that does what you want to do;  it uses lists and vectorized
operations.

# generate some test data
m <- seq(5, 30, length=10)  # means
v <- m / 4  # variance
n <- 50   # samples
# use list for the data
ans <- lapply(seq_along(m), function(x) rnorm(n, m[x], v[x]))
# convert to integer
ansInt <- lapply(ans, as.integer)
# sort
ansSort <- lapply(ansInt, sort)
# show the results
ansSort



On 4/3/07, projection83 <mkurowski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I am used to java (well, i dont remember it really well, but anyway)
>
> I have having a really difficult time making simple loops to work. I got
> the
> following to work:
>
>         ##
>        ##Creates objects Ux1, Ux2, Ux2 etc. that  all contain n numbers in
> a
> random distribution
>        ##
>        m<-c(m1,m2,m3,m4,m5,m6,m7,m8,m9,m10)#these are defined as numbers
> (means)
>        v<-c(v1,v2,v3,v4,v5,v6,v7,v8,v9,v10)#these are defined as numbers
> (variances)
>        n<-50
>        for(k in 1:g)
>        {
>                assign( paste("Ux", k, sep=""), rnorm( n  ,
> assign(paste("m",1,sep=""),m[k])   ,   assign(paste("m",1,sep=""),v[k])  )
> )
>        }
>
>
> The above seems like a lot of work for such a simple feat, no?
>
> Also, I CANNot get the following to work in a loop manor:
>
>        Ux1i<-as.integer(Ux1)
>        Ux2i<-as.integer(Ux2)
>        Ux3i<-as.integer(Ux3)
>
> or
>
>        Sx1<-sort(Ux1i)
>        Sx2<-sort(Ux2i)
>        Sx3<-sort(Ux3i)
>
> Maybe I am just not using matrixes enough? but even that seems quite a lot
> more complex than calling x<-matrix() then grabbing values by
> x[j][k]...(java style if i remember correctly). the matrix help in R dosnt
> make much sense to me. And also i am not sure why numeric() dosnt make you
> define length before you use it, yet matrix() does.  Is there some other
> funciton that i should be using to make length not an issue?
>
>
> All in all, I dont know if i am going about this loop stuff a reaaaaly
> round
> about way - Any help would make me much less loopy:Pthanks
>
>
>
> --
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