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Working With Vectors and Matrices

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Working with Vectors and Matrices

Constructing vectors

I Integers from 9 to 17
> x<-9:17
> x
[1] 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
I A sequence of 11 numbers from 0 to 1
> y<-seq(0,1,length=11)
> y
[1] 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0
I The same number or the same vector several times
> z<-rep(1:2, 5)
> z
[1] 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2
I Combine numbers, vectors or both into a new vector
> xz10<-c(x,z,10)
> xz10
[1] 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 10
Constructing matrices

I Combine rows into a matrix


> A<-rbind(1:3, c(1,1,2))
> A
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1 2 3
[2,] 1 1 2
I Or columns
> B<-cbind(1:3, c(1,1,2))
> B
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 1 1
[2,] 2 1
[3,] 3 2
I Define a matrix from one long vector
> C<-matrix(c(1,0,0,1,1,0,1,1,1), nrow=3, ncol=3)
> C
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1 1 1
[2,] 0 1 1
[3,] 0 0 1
Can also be done by rows by adding “, byrow=TRUE” before the last
parenthesis
Index and logical index

I Important for optimal use of R


I Example: Define a vector with integers from (-5) to 5 and extract the
numbers with absolute value less than 3.
> x<- (-5):5
> x
[1] -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5
I by their index in the vector
> x[4:8]
[1] -2 -1 0 1 2
I by negative selection (set a minus in front of the indices we don’t want)
> x[-c(1:3,9:11)]
[1] -2 -1 0 1 2
I A logical vector can be defined by
> index<-abs(x)<3
> index
[1] FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE
I Now this vector can be used to extract the wanted numbers
> x[index]
[1] -2 -1 0 1 2
Index and logical index
I This also works for matrices:
> A<-matrix((-4):5, nrow=2, ncol=5)
> A
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
[1,] -4 -2 0 2 4
[2,] -3 -1 1 3 5
> A[A<0]
[1] -4 -3 -2 -1
I And for assignments
> A[A<0]<-0
> A
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
[1,] 0 0 0 2 4
[2,] 0 0 1 3 5
I Matrix rows can be selected by
> A[2,]
[1] 0 0 1 3 5
I and similarly for columns
> A[,c(2,4)]
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 0 2
[2,] 0 3
Properties of vectors and matrices

The mode of the vector or matrix detects the type of singles that is stored:

> A<-matrix(rep(c(TRUE,FALSE),2),nrow=2)
> B<-rnorm(4)
> C<-matrix(LETTERS[1:9],nrow=3)
> A;B;C
[,1] [,2]
[1,] TRUE TRUE
[2,] FALSE FALSE
[1] 0.6613129 0.8583421 1.2516685 -1.2147030
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] "A" "D" "G"
[2,] "B" "E" "H"
[3,] "C" "F" "I"
> mode(A);mode(B);mode(C)
[1] "logical"
[1] "numeric"
[1] "character"
Properties of vectors and matrices

Vectors and matrices have lengths: The length is the number of elements:

> x<-matrix(c(NA,2:12),ncol=3)
> x
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] NA 5 9
[2,] 2 6 10
[3,] 3 7 11
[4,] 4 8 12
> length(x[1,])
[1] 3
> length(x)
[1] 12

The dimension of a matrix is the number of rows and columns: The number of
columns is the second element.

> dim(x); dim(x)[2]


[1] 4 3
[1] 3
Naming rows and columns in a matrix

We can add names to a matrix with the dimnames() function:


> x<-matrix(rnorm(12),nrow=4)
> x
[,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,] 1.5231529 -0.5784787 -0.7314045
[2,] -1.2359829 0.2717685 -0.8343691
[3,] 1.6658531 -0.3012827 0.6278903
[4,] -0.5035843 -0.4158793 0.7975808
> dimnames(x)[[2]]<-paste("data",1:3,sep="")
> dimnames(x)[[1]]<-paste("obs",1:4,sep="")
> x
data1 data2 data3
obs1 1.5231529 -0.5784787 -0.7314045
obs2 -1.2359829 0.2717685 -0.8343691
obs3 1.6658531 -0.3012827 0.6278903
obs4 -0.5035843 -0.4158793 0.7975808

Retrieval:
> rownames(x)
[1] "obs1" "obs2" "obs3" "obs4"
> colnames(x)
[1] "data1" "data2" "data3"

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