[R] Applying function to elements of matrices in a list

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

try this:

Reduce("+", x) / length(x)


Best,
Dimitris


On 11/25/2010 3:42 PM, statmobile wrote:
> Hello R-help,
>
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> I'm wondering if anybody has any tips on how to accomplish this
> efficiently. I have a list of matrices, and I'm trying to get the mean
> of the [i,j]'th element of each matrix in a list.
>
> So if I have a list of matrices, say
>
> x <- list(a=matrix(rnorm(4),nrow=2),b=matrix(rnorm(4),nrow=2))
>
> How would I get a 2x2 matrix, where the i,j'th element would be the mean
> across the the list of each of the i,j'th elements in the list? That is,
> where the [1,2] element would be the average of a[1,2] and b[1,2].
>
> Of course my list and matrices are much larger, and I was hoping there
> would be some trick with lapply that I may be missing here.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
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