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Reputation: 45

Summing elements of a vector in R

I'm trying to figure out how to add each respective component in a vector and store that in another vector. This is what I have so far: 

# Create a function to roll a die n times. 
RollDie = function(n) sample(1:6, n, rep=T)
die1 = RollDie(500)
die2 = RollDie(500)
die3 = RollDie(500)
die4 = RollDie(500)
die5 = RollDie(500)
die6 = RollDie(500)
# Sum the values of the first component of each vector which represent the values
# of the six die rolled.
X = sum(die1[1], die2[1], die3[1], die4[1], die5[1], die6[1])
X

What I'm trying to do is sum the first, second, etc components of die 1 through 6.

So, the first component of X will be 

sum(die1[1], die2[1], die3[1], die4[1], die5[1], die6[1])

the second component of X will be 

sum(die1[2], die2[2], die3[2], die4[2], die5[2], die6[2])

the third component of X will be

sum(die1[3], die2[3], die3[3], die4[3], die5[3], die6[3])

and so on. X will have a length of 500.

I'm trying to find the appropriate command, but not having any luck. Please help. Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 279

Answers (1)

Colonel Beauvel
Colonel Beauvel

Reputation: 31171

A possible solution with a vectorized approach:

rowSums(replicate(6, RollDie(500)))

Upvotes: 1

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