[R] help with loop

[Romain Francois]

Hi,

Try this;

lapply( mydata, function(x){
    sum( diff( x ) )
} )

Romain

Rafael Moral wrote:
> Dear useRs,
> I'm trying to write a loop to sum my data in the following way:
> (the second - the first) + (the third - the second) + (the fourth - the third) + ...
> for each column.
>
> So, I wrote something like this:
>
>   c <- list()
>   for(i in 1:ncol(mydata)) {
>   for(j in 2:nrow(mydata)) {
>   c[[i]] <- sum(yc[j,i] - yc[(j-1),i])
>   }}}
>
> As for the columns it works pretty fine, but it only returns the last subtraction, however, I need the sum of all subtractions.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Rafael.
>
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