[SOLVED] I would like to obtain an ARRAY of matrices like the one shown here

Issue

I would like to generate an array of data matrices, where each matrix will refer to a different scenario, for the purpose of example I have included only 1

p13=0.493;p43=0.325;p25=0.335;p35=0.574;p12=0.868
std_e2=sqrt(1-p12^2);std_e2
std_e3=sqrt(1-(p13^2+p43^2));std_e3
std_e5=sqrt(1-(p25^2+p35^2+2*p25*p35*(p13*p12)));std_e5
scenario_1<-matrix(c(3,0,0,0,0),ncol = 5,nrow = 1);scenario_1

genereting_fuction<- function(n,scenario){ 
  sample <- vector("list") 
  for (i in scenario){
    x1=rnorm(n)+scenario[i,1]
    x4=rnorm(n)+scenario[i,4]
    x2=x1*p12+std_e2*rnorm(n)+scenario[i,2]
    x3=x1*p13+x4*p43+std_e3*rnorm(n)+scenario[i,3]
    x5=x2*p25+x3*p35+std_e5*rnorm(n)+scenario[i,5]
    sample[[i]]=cbind(x1,x2,x3,x4,x5)
    colnames(sample[[i]])<-c("x1","x2","x3","x4","x5")
  }
  sample
} 
array_scenari<-array(dim=c(5,5,2));array_scenari

for(j in 1:nrow(scenario_1)){
  set.seed(1234)
  dati_prova<- sapply(rep(1,5), function(x) genereting_fuction(x,scenario_1),simplify = 'array');dati_prova
  dati_prova<-do.call(rbind.data.frame, dati_prova);dati_prova<-as.matrix(dati_prova);dati_prova
  dati_prova<-as.matrix(dati_prova)
  array_scenari[,,j]<-dati_prova[]
}

I can’t understand why it doesn’t work and gives me an error

Solution

It’s hard to give a concrete answer without a working reproducible example, since your function contains externally defined variables. However, the source of the error is clear. When you create an empty array with array() it has a single fixed dimension:

matrix_classification <- array()

dim(matrix_classification)
#> [1] 1

And if you try to write into its third dimension you get an error:

k <- 1

matrix_classification[, , k] <- "x"
#> Error in matrix_classification[, , k] <- "x": incorrect number of subscripts

If you want to write into an array you should define its dimensions first. For example, the following creates an empty 5 x 5 x 5 array:

matrix_classification <- array("", dim = c(5, 5, 5))

dim(matrix_classification)
#> [1] 5 5 5

And if we want to write a matrix into the kth slice we can do:

matrix_classification[, , k] <- matrix(sample(letters, 25), nrow = 5)

matrix_classification[,,1]
#>      [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
#> [1,] "a"  "d"  "k"  "t"  "c" 
#> [2,] "f"  "b"  "n"  "m"  "s" 
#> [3,] "u"  "q"  "y"  "o"  "j" 
#> [4,] "l"  "g"  "h"  "w"  "v" 
#> [5,] "r"  "i"  "e"  "p"  "z"

^{Created on 2022-03-06 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)}

Answered By – Allan Cameron

Answer Checked By – Senaida (BugsFixing Volunteer)