Thanks you very much. You made it work! Cheers --- On Mon, 4/18/11, Kenn Konstabel <lebats...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Kenn Konstabel <lebats...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [R] mapply to lapply > To: "Alaios" <ala...@yahoo.com> > Cc: R-help@r-project.org > Date: Monday, April 18, 2011, 1:06 PM > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM, > Alaios <ala...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > Dear Andreas, > > I would like to thank you for your reply. > > I have tried two alternatives but none of the two > worked out: > > > > F2[i+1,j+1]<-sum(lapply(1:nrow(cells), > function(rowInd) > Fwithcellvalue(i=i,j=j,a=cells[rowInd,2],b=cells[rowInd,4],c=cells[rowInd,1],d=cells[rowInd,3],e=cells[rowInd,5]))) > > > > this one is executed : takes like 2 mins to > return(which is normal) but returns the following > > > > ^@Error in sum(lapply(1:nrow(cells), function(rowInd) > Fwithcellvalue(i = i, : > > invalid 'type' (list) of argument > > The lapply part worked but for sum you need a vector rather > than a > list (which is the result of lapply). So e.g. > sum(unlist(lapply(..... > something .....))) should work. > > KK > > > > > > > afterwards I tried to change the function definition > so to pass i,j inside: > > > > This one does not execute at all > > > > F2[i+1,j+1]<-sum(lapply(1:nrow(cells), > function(rowInd,i,j) > Fwithcellvalue(i=i,j=j,a=cells[rowInd,2],b=cells[rowInd,4],c=cells[rowInd,1],d=cells[rowInd,3],e=cells[rowInd,5]))) > > Error in paste("f", i, j, "(a,b,c,d)", sep = "") : > > argument "i" is missing, with no default > > > > > > What do you think I should try out now? > > > > Vielen Dank > > Alex > > > > --- On Mon, 4/18/11, Andreas Borg <andreas.b...@unimedizin-mainz.de> > wrote: > > > >> From: Andreas Borg <andreas.b...@unimedizin-mainz.de> > >> Subject: Re: [R] mapply to lapply > >> To: "Alaios" <ala...@yahoo.com> > >> Cc: R-help@r-project.org > >> Date: Monday, April 18, 2011, 11:10 AM > >> My solution would be to use an index > >> variable that goes from 1 to the number of rows > that are to > >> be processed, along with a helper function which > calls > >> Fwithcellvalue with the suitable arguments: > >> > >> F2[i+1,j+1]<-sum(lapply(1:nrow(cells), > function(rowInd) > >> > Fwithcellvalue(i=i,j=j,a=cells[rowInd,2],b=cells[rowInd,4],c=cells[rowInd,1],d=cells[rowInd,3],e=cells[rowInd,5])) > >> > >> > >> Best regards, > >> > >> Andreas > >> > >> Alaios schrieb: > >> > Dear all, > >> > > >> > I would like to ask your help concerning > converting a > >> mapply function to lapply. The reason is that I > would like > >> to use mclapply which requires lapply syntax. > >> > > >> > The command I would like to convert is: > >> > > >> > F2[i+1,j+1]<-sum(mapply(Fwithcellvalue,i=i,j=j,a=cells[,2],b=cells[,4],c=cells[,1],d=cells[,3],e=cells[,5])) > >> > > >> > Could you please help me understand how I > should > >> change it? > >> > > >> > > >> > Best Regards > >> > Alex > >> > > >> > > ______________________________________________ > >> > R-help@r-project.org > >> mailing list > >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >> > PLEASE do read the posting guide > >> > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >> > and provide commented, minimal, > self-contained, > >> reproducible code. > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> -- Andreas Borg > >> Medizinische Informatik > >> > >> UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN > >> der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität > >> Institut für Medizinische Biometrie, > Epidemiologie und > >> Informatik > >> Obere Zahlbacher Straße 69, 55131 Mainz > >> www.imbei.uni-mainz.de > >> > >> Telefon +49 (0) 6131 175062 > >> E-Mail: b...@imbei.uni-mainz.de > >> > >> Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder > rechtlich > >> geschützte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der > >> richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail > irrtümlich > >> erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den > >> Absender und löschen Sie diese Mail. Das > unerlaubte > >> Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe > >> dieser Mail und der darin enthaltenen > Informationen ist > >> nicht gestattet. > >> > >> > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org > mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, > reproducible code. > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.