r - bin/group numeric vectors of different length -
i have numeric vectors different lengths, ranging 300 500. 'normalize' them length of 100, i.e. vector of length 300 take mean of 3 values, vector of length 500 mean of 5 values , on.
how can bin numeric vectors , calculate mean without reordering? have not been successful cut far.
# numeric vectors of different lengths v1 = rnorm(300) v2 = rnorm(500) # goal: numeric vectors of same length v1.binned = c(mean(v1[1],v1[2],v1[3]), ...) v2.binned = c(mean(v2[1],v2[2],v2[3], v2[4], v2[5]), ...)
you can convert vectors matrix , use colmeans:
colmeans(matrix(v1,100)) [1] -0.09583398 0.01330998 0.11107002 colmeans(matrix(v2,100)) [1] -0.02396420 0.08638535 -0.03953273 0.09861287 0.01112838 though beware of recycling if cut size not exact multiple of vector size. in case, split-sapply strategy job:
sapply(split(v1,(seq_along(v1)-1)%/%200),mean) 0 1 -0.041262 0.111070
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