Can't you just convert you df as follow  matrix <- as.matrix(s) ?

Double check it as I am a newbie too. :-)

Regards,

Alberto

On 4 March 2011 06:08, Dmitrij Kudriavcev <dimitrij.kudriavcev@ntsg.lt>wrote:

> Hello
>
> I'm a new in R
> I have a large data.frame "s" (this is actualy just a table in mysql) :
>
> > names(s)
> [1] "symbols", "day", "value"
>
> I need to convert it to simple matrix. I have define this matrix like this:
>
> > data.matrix <- matrix(nrow=nDays, ncol=nSymbols, dimnames=list(days,
> symbols))
>
> then i just copy values to the matrix using for() loop, but it seems to
> take
> very long time. Is is a more fast way to do it in R? I know, what i can
> just
> gyve s$value as source data to the matrix, but problem is, what for some
> symbols couple days could be just missed.
>
> Cheers,
> Dima
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