Try this:

t(rowsum(t(Mat), substr(colnames(Mat), 1, 1)))

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Gregory Gentlemen <
gregory_gentlemen@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> I am looking for an efficient way to solve the following problem. I have a
> large matrix of continuous values with a small proportion of missing values.
> Columns correspond to variables where each variable has two measurements,
> call them A and B. The matrix is such that the columns are in sequence with
> respect to the variables. I would like to sum up the two measurements for
> each variable and each observation (the rows) for the whole matrix. Here is
> an example of such a matrix with 5 variables (R, S, T, U, V) and 50
> observations:
>
> set.seed(27)
> Mat <- matrix(rnorm(500), nrow=50, ncol=10)
> dimnames(Mat)[[2]] <-
> c("R.A","R.B","S.A","S.B","T.A","T.B","U.A","U.B","V.A","V.B")
>
> miss.ind <- rbinom(500,1,prob=0.98)
> Mat[!as.logical(miss.ind)] <- NA
>
> So I would like to produce 50 by 5 matrix where the columns are the sums of
> A+B measurements for each of the 5 variables.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Gregory Gentlemen
>
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