[R] Trying to eliminate a for loop

[Steven Wolf]

Yes!  That works.  

Thank you so much!

-Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
Behalf Of Petr Savicky
Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 4:41 PM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Trying to eliminate a for loop

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 03:52:15PM -0500, Steven Wolf wrote:
> I keep trying to eliminate for loops when I arrive at them, but this 
> one is stumping me.  What is the nifty way to do this?
> 
> My object data.cca is the output of the cancor function (for some two 
> datasets X and Y) (data.cca is a numeric vector)
> 
> data.cca <- cancor(X,Y)
> 
> Xcen=0*X
> for(i in 1:dim(X)[1]){
> 	Xcen[i,]=data.cca$xcenter
> 	}
> Xc = X - Xcen

Hi.

Is the following, what you are looking for?

  Xc <- sweep(X, 2, data.cca$xcenter)

Hope this helps.

Petr Savicky.

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