The only reason to use one of the apply family of functions is because the 
idiom makes your code more clear. I do not see how that would be the case here. 
The apply functions are not typically any faster. If you really need speed the 
Rcpp package is very easy to use.

Mark
On Aug 23, 2013, at 3:33 PM, gi...@metu.edu.tr wrote:

> 
> 
> Dear R users,
> 
> I am confused with the usage of apply kind of functions instead of nested
> loops. Let me illustrate my problem, I have an array,named C, with
> dimesions c(nr,nr,nt*n). I want to fill in a Tmat array according to the
> rule as given below:
> 
> Tmat<-array(diag(nt*nr), c(nt*nr,nt*nr,n))
> 
> for( i in 1:n)  {
> for( t in 2:nt) {
> Tmat[(2*t-1):(2*t),(2*t-3):(2*t-2),i]<-C[,,(i*t)]
> }
> }
> 
> Instead of using two for loops, I want to use any apply kind of function,
> but I couldn't figure it out. At this point, any help will be appreciated.
> Thank you very much for your interest.
> 
> 
> gul
> 
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