On Sunday 21 January 2007 16:30, jim holtman wrote: > I think you are computing your bases in the wrong way. If the data > represents 3 columns with base 3,3,2, then the multiplier has to be > c(6,2,1) not c(9,3,1). I think this should compute it correctly: > > # create a matrix of all combination of bases 3,3,2 > mat1 <- expand.grid(0:1, 0:2, 0:2)[,3:1] > base <- c(3,3,2) # define the bases > # now create the multiplier > mbase <- c(rev(cumprod(rev(base))),1)[-1] > # show the data > mat1 > base > mbase > # combine with original > cbind(mat1, conv=colSums(apply(mat1, 1, function(x) x*mbase)))
YES! Thank you so much Jim, this made my day :)) Adrian -- Adrian Dusa Romanian Social Data Archive 1, Schitu Magureanu Bd 050025 Bucharest sector 5 Romania Tel./Fax: +40 21 3126618 \ +40 21 3120210 / int.101 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.