Sorry to hassle you, but I really need to get my code up and running. Please can you therefore explain what a and v are?
Thank you, Laura On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Laura Bonnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Can I ask what a and v are? > > Thanks, > > Laura > > > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Robin Hankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Laura Bonnett wrote: >> >>> crosstable[,,expand[d,1],expand[d,2],expand[d,3],...expand[d,n]] >>> crosstable is just a crosstabulation of an n+2-dimensional dataset and I >>> am trying to pick out those that are in combination 'd' of expand. So for >>> example, for 5-dimensional data using your example: >>> Var1 Var2 Var3 >>> 1 1 1 1 >>> 2 2 1 1 >>> 3 3 1 1 >>> 4 1 2 1 >>> 5 2 2 1 >>> 6 3 2 1 >>> 7 1 1 2 >>> 8 2 1 2 >>> 9 3 1 2 >>> 10 1 2 2 >>> 11 2 2 2 >>> 12 3 2 2 >>> d refers to the row of the matrix above - d=2 is 2,1,1 so >>> crosstable[,,2,1,1] would retrieve all the data where Var1 =2, Var2=1, >>> Var3=1 and the two remaining variables are given in the crosstabulations for >>> all values. >>> Is that any better? >>> >>> >> OK I think I understand. The magic package uses this type of >> construction extensively, but not this particular one. >> >> It's trickier than I'd have expected. >> >> Try this: >> >> f <- function(a,v){ >> jj <- >> sapply(dim(a)[seq_len(length(dim(a))-length(v))],seq_len,simplify=FALSE) >> jj <- c(jj , as.list(v)) >> do.call("[" , c(list(a) , jj, drop=TRUE)) >> } >> >> >> >> [you will have to coerce the output from expand.grid() to a matrix in >> order to extract a row from it] >> >> >> HTH >> >> rksh >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Robin K. S. Hankin >> Senior Research Associate >> Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR) >> Department of Land Economy >> University of Cambridge >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> 01223-764877 >> >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.