look at the apply family of functions and look at the MARGIN argument. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:30 PM, RRRRRRRRRR!<cwal...@usgs.gov> wrote: > > I have columns in two tables that need to be compared in order to get a > statistic. The function calculating the statistic is somers2. Here are the > two columns I must calculate, row by row. > > name1 name2 > 1 Pred_pres_a_indpdt[,3,,] population[,23] > 2 Pred_pres_b_indpdt[,3,,] population[,24] > 3 Pred_pres_c_indpdt[,3,,] population[,25] > 4 Pred_pres_d_indpdt[,3,,] population[,26] > 5 Pred_pres_e_indpdt[,3,,] population[,27] > 6 Pred_pres_f_indpdt[,3,,] population[,28] > 7 Pred_pres_a_indpdt[,4,,] population[,23] > 8 Pred_pres_b_indpdt[,4,,] population[,24] > 9 Pred_pres_c_indpdt[,4,,] population[,25] > 10 Pred_pres_d_indpdt[,4,,] population[,26] > 11 Pred_pres_e_indpdt[,4,,] population[,27] > 12 Pred_pres_f_indpdt[,4,,] population[,28] > 13 Pred_pres_a_indpdt[,5,,] population[,23] > 14 Pred_pres_b_indpdt[,5,,] population[,24] > 15 Pred_pres_c_indpdt[,5,,] population[,25] > 16 Pred_pres_d_indpdt[,5,,] population[,26] > 17 Pred_pres_e_indpdt[,5,,] population[,27] > 18 Pred_pres_f_indpdt[,5,,] population[,28] > 19 Pred_pres_a_indpdt[,8,,] population[,23] > 20 Pred_pres_b_indpdt[,8,,] population[,24] > 21 Pred_pres_c_indpdt[,8,,] population[,25] > 22 Pred_pres_d_indpdt[,8,,] population[,26] > 23 Pred_pres_e_indpdt[,8,,] population[,27] > 24 Pred_pres_f_indpdt[,8,,] population[,28] > > the somers2 function works like this: > > somers2(x, y) > > for example: somers2(Pred_pres_a_indpdt[,3,,], population[,23]) > > so somers2 is calculated for each row, with column 1 as x, column 2 as y. > Is there anyway to automate this? > > -R > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/automation-question-tp24761918p24761918.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. >
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