Question

I have the the following data frame and variables:

u0 <- c(1,1,1,1,1)
df <- data.frame (u0)
a = .793
b = 2.426
r = 0.243
q = 1
w = 2
j = 1
z = .314

using the following loop I am doing some calculations and put the results in the first row of my data frame.

while (j<5){
  df[q,w] <- df[q, w-1] * (r+j-1)*(b+j-1)*(z) / ((a+b+j-2)*j)
  j = j + 1
  w = w + 1
}

now I want to create another loop to do the same calculations for all rows (i.e I need the ‘q’ variable to vary) of my data frame. I would be thankful if anyone helps me.

Answer 1

You could either do this by putting your while loop inside of a for loop that goes over q, but a more R-tastic way would be to simply define q <- 1:5, and leave the rest of your code as-is. Then df will fill up entirely. I take it in this example you want all rows to be identical?