Reputation: 73
I am trying to replace all values of r for which r<=10 with the value of the 1st observation in x (which is 1). This is just a very simplified example of what I am trying to do, so please do not question why I'm trying to do this in a complicated way because the full code is more complicated. The only thing I need help with is figuring out how to use the vector I created (p1) to replace r[p1] or equivalently r[c(1,2,3,4)] with x[ 1 ] (which is equal to 1). I can not write p1 explicitly because it will be generated in a loop (not shown in code).
x=c(1,2,3)
r=c(1,3,7,10,15)
assign(paste0("p", x[1]), which(r<=10))
p1
r[paste0("p", x[1])]=x[1]
In the code above, I tried using r[paste0("p", x[1])]=x[1]
but this is the output I end up with
When instead I would like to see this output
Basically, I need to figure out a way to call p1 in this code r[??]=x[1]
without explicitly typing p1.
I have included the full code I am attempting below in case context is needed.
##Creates a function to generate discrete random values from a specified pmf
##n is the number of random values you wish to generate
##x is a vector of discrete values (e.g. c(1,2,3))
##pmf is the associated pmf for the discrete values (e.g. c(.3,.2,.5))
r.dscrt.pmf=function(n,x,pmf){
set.seed(1)
##Generate n uniform random values from 0 to 1
r=runif(n)
high=0
low=0
for (i in 1:length(x)){
##High will establish the appropriate upper bound to consider
high=high+pmf[i]
if (i==1){
##Creates the variable p1 which contains the positions of all
##r less than or equal to the first value of pmf
assign(paste0("p", x[i]), which(r<=pmf[i]))
} else {
##Creates the variable p2,p3,p4,etc. which contains the positions of all
##r between the appropriate interval of high and low
assign(paste0("p", x[i]), which(r>low & r<=high))
}
##Low will establish the appropriate lower bound to consider
low=low+pmf[i]
}
for (i in 1:length(x)){
##Will loops to replace the values of r at the positions specified at
##p1,p2,p3,etc. with x[1],x[2],x[3],etc. respectively.
r[paste0("p", x[i])]=x[i]
}
##Returns the new r
r
}
##Example call of the function
r.dscrt.pmf(10,c(0,1,3),c(.3,.2,.5))
Upvotes: 1
Views: 4504
Reputation: 5283
get
is like assign
, in that it lets you refer to variables by string instead of name.
r[get(paste0("p", x[1]))]=x[1]
But get
is one of those "flags" of something that could be written in a much clearer and safer way.
Upvotes: 5