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Reputation: 21

create 3 dimensional array with different lengths

I am a beginner of R. I want to create a 3 dimensional array but I can not define the length of each dimension. I am analysing students' marks in a class. There are 10 classes but it has a different number of students. And "Grade" will be 100-90, 89-80, 79-70... until there will be any student who got the relevant marks. I was going to use a couple of for-loops with the multiple array. If I create a 3 dim array, 

arr<-array(data, dim=c(??,??,??)), dimnames= list("class","grade","average Marks") )

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2911

Answers (2)

IRTFM
IRTFM

Reputation: 263301

You really do not want to use a matrix for this. A dataframe allows you to have a mixture of data types. 

clasIDs <- c("Firsthour", "Secondhour", "Thirdhour")
class.size <-c(3, 5, 2)  # small sizes for illustration
cls.frame <- data.frame(clasID=rep(clasIDs, class.size), 
                      student.ID = unlist(sapply(class.size, function(x) seq(from=1, to=x))),
                      grade=factor(rep(NA,10) , levels=c("100-90", "89-80", "79-70")) )

> cls.frame
       clasID student.ID grade
1   Firsthour          1  <NA>
2   Firsthour          2  <NA>
3   Firsthour          3  <NA>
4  Secondhour          1  <NA>
5  Secondhour          2  <NA>
6  Secondhour          3  <NA>
7  Secondhour          4  <NA>
8  Secondhour          5  <NA>
9   Thirdhour          1  <NA>
10  Thirdhour          2  <NA>

Upvotes: 4

Dirk is no longer here
Dirk is no longer here

Reputation: 368181

You can't.

Array are of fixed dimensions. You could use the maximum along each dimension and allocate that along with NA to fill in.

Lists are the alternative for varying lengths, and even different component types.

Upvotes: 2

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