Programming a Loop on R - r

In order to explain what i'm trying to do , i have 73 assets and i'm trying to backtest possible pair trading strategies.
So i did test previously all possible pair combinations for cointegration and i stored them in a variable named combos, which is a 2x869 matrix containing in each column the id of both assets that are cointegrated, so if i take the first column of this variable i get (1,25) that means that the asset number 1 and number 25 in my data are cointegrated.
The second variable is datats, it an xts objects, it contain the prices of my 73 assets in different dates.
Now i'm trying to run a loop on them in order to backtest the pair trading strategy using the PairTrading package in R.
Here is the code using stock.price within the package.
install.packages("PairTrading", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
install.packages("plyr")
library(PairTrading)
library(plyr)
datats<-stock.price
combos <- combn(ncol(datats),2)
adply(combos, 2, function(x) {
price.pair <- datats[,c(x[1],x[2])]
params <-EstimateParametersHistorically(price.pair, period = 180)
signal <- Simple(params$spread, 0.05)
return.pairtrading <- Return(price.pair, lag(signal), lag(params$hedge.ratio))
returnS<-(100 * cumprod(1 + return.pairtrading))
out <- data.frame("return"=returnS)
return(out)
})
This code works fine, the problem is when i use my own database instead of the one within the package.
So what i'm trying to do is test the strategy aka the function defined previously, with the combination stored in combos, which means for the first execution i want to test the strategy between the asset number 1 and asset number 25, then between 1 and 61 and so on, so i use datats[,c(x[1],x[2])] to do that, and i store the cumulative return of the strategy returnS<-(100 * cumprod(1 + return.pairtrading)).
I tested the above function manually and it works perfectly, the problem is when i try to loop it, so my guess is the loop is working fine, but something after breaks the code.
This is the error i get:
Error in apply(merge(signal[, 1], weight.pair[, 1], return.pair[, 1], :
dim(X) must have a positive length
Here is an update, the code works fine even with my data, however it seems to break in certain points, for instance, i managed to run all combinations from 1 to 400 in a single execution, however 408 seems to break the code, and when i use the combination 408 manually, the function works fine, yet in breaks when i try to loop? this error is very confusing and i've been unable to advance today because of it, kindly help if you can.

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colMeans failing within for loop R

I've been working on scraping data from the web and manipulating it in R, but I'm having some trouble when I begin to include the dreaded for loop. I am working with some arbitrary sport statistics, with the idea being that I can calculate the per game average for various stats for each player.
Each of these pieces works outside of the loop, but falls apart inside. Ideally, my code will do three things:
1) Scraping the data. I have a list of player names "names" (by row), and the unique piece of the url for each player in column 2. The website has a table named "stats" on each page, which is nice of them.
library(XML)
statMean <- matrix(ncol = 8, nrow = 20)
for(h in 1:20){
webname <- names[h,2]
vurl <- paste("http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/",
webname, "/gamelog/2015")
tables <- readHTMLTable(vurl)
t1 <- tables$stats
2) Pick the columns I want and turn the values into numeric values.
temp <- t1[, c(9,10,12,13,14,15,17)]
temp <- sapply(temp, function(x) as.numeric(as.character(x)))
3) Calculate the mean of each column, bind the unique player name to the column means, and rbind that vector to a full table.
statMean <- rbind(statMean, c(webname, colMeans(temp)))
When I run through these steps outside of the Loop, it seems to work ... when I run the loop I inevitably get:
Error in colMeans(temp) : 'x' must be an array of at least two dimensions
I've looked at a number of For Loop questions on this site, and my code looks a lot different than how it started. Unfortunately, each time I try something new, I end up with a version of the above error.
Any help would be fantastic. Thanks.

Create a new data frame of the means of randomly selected rows - looped

Question:
I have a data.frame (hlth) that consists of 49 vectors - a mix of numeric(25:49) and factor(1:24). I am trying to randomly select 50 rows, then calculate column means only for the numeric columns (dropping the other values), and then place the random row mean(s) into a new data.frame (beta). I would then like to iterate this process 1000 times.
I have attempted this process but the values that get returned are identical and the new means will not enter the new data.frame
Here is a few rows and columns of the data.frame(hlth)
DateIn adgadj Sex VetMedCharges pwtfc
1/01/2006 3.033310 STEER 0.00 675.1151
1/10/1992 3.388245 STEER 2540.33 640.2261
1/10/1995 3.550847 STEER 572.78 607.6200
1/10/1996 2.893707 HEIFER 549.42 425.5217
1/10/1996 3.647233 STEER 669.18 403.8238
The code I have used thus far:
set.seed[25]
beta<-data.frame()
net.row<-function(n=50){
netcol=sample(1:nrow(hlth),size=n ,replace=TRUE)
rNames <- row.names(hlth)
subset(hlth,rNames%in%netrow,select=c(25:49))
colMeans(s1,na.rm=TRUE,dims=1)
}
beta$net.row=replicate(1000,net.row()); net.row
The two issues, that I have detected, are:
1) Returns the same value(s) each iteration
2) "Error during wrap-up: object of type 'closure' is not subsettable" when the beta$netrow
Any suggestions would be appreciated!!!
Just adding to my comment (and firstly pasting it):
netcol=sample(1:nrow(hlth),size=n ,replace=TRUE) should presumably by netrow = ... and the error is a scoping problem - R is trying to subset the function beta, presumably again, because it can't find netRowMeans in the data.frame you've defined, moves on to the global environment and throws an error there.
There are also a couple of other things. You don't assign subset(hlth,rNames%in%netrow,select=c(25:49)) to a variable, which I think you mean to assign to s1, so colMeans is probably running on something you've set in the global environment.
If you want to pass a variable directly in to the data frame beta in that manner, you'll have to initialise beta with the right number of columns and number of rows - the column means you've passed out will be a vector of (1 x 25), so won't fit in a single column. You would probably be better of initalising a matrix called mat or something (to avoid confusion with scoping errors masking the actual error messages) with 25 columns and 1000 rows.
EDIT: Question has been edited slightly since I posted this, but most points still stand.

Loop and clear the basic function in R

I've got this dataset
install.packages("combinat")
install.packages("quantmod")
library(quantmod)
library(combinat)
library(utils)
getSymbols("AAPL",from="2012-01-01")
data<-AAPL
p1<-4
dO<-data[,1]
dC<-data[,4]
emaO<-EMA(dO,n=p1)
emaC<-EMA(dC,n=p1)
Pos_emaO_dO_UP<-emaO>dO
Pos_emaO_dO_D<-emaO<dO
Pos_emaC_dC_UP<-emaC>dC
Pos_emaC_dC_D<-emaC<dC
Pos_emaC_dO_D<-emaC<dO
Pos_emaC_dO_UP<-emaC>dO
Pos_emaO_dC_UP<-emaO>dC
Pos_emaO_dC_D<-emaO<dC
Profit_L_1<-((lag(dC,-1)-lag(dO,-1))/(lag(dO,-1)))*100
Profit_L_2<-(((lag(dC,-2)-lag(dO,-1))/(lag(dO,-1)))*100)/2
Profit_L_3<-(((lag(dC,-3)-lag(dO,-1))/(lag(dO,-1)))*100)/3
Profit_L_4<-(((lag(dC,-4)-lag(dO,-1))/(lag(dO,-1)))*100)/4
Profit_L_5<-(((lag(dC,-5)-lag(dO,-1))/(lag(dO,-1)))*100)/5
Profit_L_6<-(((lag(dC,-6)-lag(dO,-1))/(lag(dO,-1)))*100)/6
Profit_L_7<-(((lag(dC,-7)-lag(dO,-1))/(lag(dO,-1)))*100)/7
Profit_L_8<-(((lag(dC,-8)-lag(dO,-1))/(lag(dO,-1)))*100)/8
Profit_L_9<-(((lag(dC,-9)-lag(dO,-1))/(lag(dO,-1)))*100)/9
Profit_L_10<-(((lag(dC,-10)-lag(dO,-1))/(lag(dO,-1)))*100)/10
which are given to this frame
frame<-data.frame(Pos_emaO_dO_UP,Pos_emaO_dO_D,Pos_emaC_dC_UP,Pos_emaC_dC_D,Pos_emaC_dO_D,Pos_emaC_dO_UP,Pos_emaO_dC_UP,Pos_emaO_dC_D,Profit_L_1,Profit_L_2,Profit_L_3,Profit_L_4,Profit_L_5,Profit_L_6,Profit_L_7,Profit_L_8,Profit_L_9,Profit_L_10)
colnames(frame)<-c("Pos_emaO_dO_UP","Pos_emaO_dO_D","Pos_emaC_dC_UP","Pos_emaC_dC_D","Pos_emaC_dO_D","Pos_emaC_dO_UP","Pos_emaO_dC_UP","Pos_emaO_dC_D","Profit_L_1","Profit_L_2","Profit_L_3","Profit_L_4","Profit_L_5","Profit_L_6","Profit_L_7","Profit_L_8","Profit_L_9","Profit_L_10")
There is vector with variables for later usage
vector<-c("Pos_emaO_dO_UP","Pos_emaO_dO_D","Pos_emaC_dC_UP","Pos_emaC_dC_D","Pos_emaC_dO_D","Pos_emaC_dO_UP","Pos_emaO_dC_UP","Pos_emaO_dC_D")
I made all possible combination with 4 variables of the vector (there are no depended variables)
comb<-as.data.frame(combn(vector,4))
comb
and get out the ,,nonsense" combination (where are both possible values of variable)
rc<-comb[!sapply(comb, function(x) any(duplicated(sub('_D|_UP', '', x))))]
rc
Then I prepare the first combination to later subseting
var<-paste(rc[,1],collapse=" & ")
var
and subset the frame (with all DVs)
kr<-eval(parse(text=paste0('subset(frame,' , var,')' )))
kr
Now I have the subseted df by the first combination of 4 variables.
Then I used the evaluation function on it
evaluation<-function(x){
s_1<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_1>0,])/nrow(x)
s_2<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_2>0,])/nrow(x)
s_3<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_3>0,])/nrow(x)
s_4<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_4>0,])/nrow(x)
s_5<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_5>0,])/nrow(x)
s_6<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_6>0,])/nrow(x)
s_7<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_7>0,])/nrow(x)
s_8<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_8>0,])/nrow(x)
s_9<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_9>0,])/nrow(x)
s_10<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_10>0,])/nrow(x)
n_1<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_1>0,])/nrow(frame)
n_2<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_2>0,])/nrow(frame)
n_3<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_3>0,])/nrow(frame)
n_4<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_4>0,])/nrow(frame)
n_5<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_5>0,])/nrow(frame)
n_6<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_6>0,])/nrow(frame)
n_7<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_7>0,])/nrow(frame)
n_8<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_8>0,])/nrow(frame)
n_9<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_9>0,])/nrow(frame)
n_10<-nrow(x[x$Profit_L_10>0,])/nrow(frame)
pr_1<-sum(kr[,"Profit_L_1"])/nrow(kr[,kr=="Profit_L_1"])
pr_2<-sum(kr[,"Profit_L_2"])/nrow(kr[,kr=="Profit_L_2"])
pr_3<-sum(kr[,"Profit_L_3"])/nrow(kr[,kr=="Profit_L_3"])
pr_4<-sum(kr[,"Profit_L_4"])/nrow(kr[,kr=="Profit_L_4"])
pr_5<-sum(kr[,"Profit_L_5"])/nrow(kr[,kr=="Profit_L_5"])
pr_6<-sum(kr[,"Profit_L_6"])/nrow(kr[,kr=="Profit_L_6"])
pr_7<-sum(kr[,"Profit_L_7"])/nrow(kr[,kr=="Profit_L_7"])
pr_8<-sum(kr[,"Profit_L_8"])/nrow(kr[,kr=="Profit_L_8"])
pr_9<-sum(kr[,"Profit_L_9"])/nrow(kr[,kr=="Profit_L_9"])
pr_10<-sum(kr[,"Profit_L_10"])/nrow(kr[,kr=="Profit_L_10"])
mat<-matrix(c(s_1,n_1,pr_1,s_2,n_2,pr_2,s_3,n_3,pr_3,s_4,n_4,pr_4,s_5,n_5,pr_5,s_6,n_6,pr_6,s_7,n_7,pr_7,s_8,n_8,pr_8,s_9,n_9,pr_9,s_10,n_10,pr_10),ncol=3,nrow=10,dimnames=list(c(1:10),c("s","n","pr")))
df<-as.data.frame(mat)
return(df)
}
result<-evaluation(kr)
result
And I need to help in several cases.
1, in evaluation function the way the matrix is made is wrong (s_1,n_1,pr_1 are starting in first column but I need to start the order by rows)
2, I need to use some loop/lapply function to go trough all possible combinations (not only the first one like in this case (var<-paste(rc[,1],collapse=" & ")) and have the understandable output where is evaluation function used on every combination and I will be able to see for which combination of variables is the evaluation done (understand I need to recognize for what is this evaluation made) and compare evaluation results for each combination.
3, This is not main point, BUT I generally want to evaluate all possible combinations (it means for 2:n number of variables and also all combinations in each of them) and then get the best possible combination according to specific DV (Profit_L_1 or Profit_L_2 and so on). And I am so weak in looping now, so, if it this possible, keep in mind what am I going to do with it later.
Thanks, feel free to update, repair or improve the question (if there is something which could be done way more easily, effectively - do it - I am open for every senseful advice.

Trying to replace NAs with column means in R

I am trying to run this simple code over data which is a data frame of 800 features and 200000 observations.
This simple code that I always used:
C <- ncol(data)
for (i in 1:C){
print(i)
data[is.na(data[,i]),i] <- mean(data[,i], na.rm=T)
}
returns:
[1] 1
Error: cannot allocate vector of size 1.6 Mb
I don't really understand why because I can independently call for the mean of the feature without any errors. Any
That error means you are running out of memory to compute the means.
Sometime, based on the number of references to an object, R will copy the object, make the change to the copy and then replace the original (reference). That is likely what is happening in your case.
I recommend you use the data.table package which allows copy-less variable modification.

perform function on pairs of columns

I am trying to run some Monte Carlo simulations on animal position data. So far, I have sampled 100 X and Y coordinates, 100 times. This results in a list of 200. I then convert this list into a dataframe that is more condusive to eventual functions I want to run for each sample (kernel.area).
Now I have a data frame with 200 columns, and I would like to perform the kernel.area function using each successive pair of columns.
I can't reproduce my own data here very well, so I've tried to give a basic example just to show the structure of the data frame I'm working with. I've included the for loop I've tried so far, but I am still an R novice and would appreciate any suggestions.
# generate dataframe representing X and Y positions
df <- data.frame(x=seq(1:200),y=seq(1:200))
# 100 replications of sampling 100 "positions"
resamp <- replicate(100,df[sample(nrow(df),100),])
# convert to data frame (kernel.area needs an xy dataframe)
df2 <- do.call("rbind", resamp[1:2,])
# xy positions need to be in columns for kernel.area
df3 <- t(df2)
#edit: kernel.area requires you have an id field, but I am only dealing with one individual, so I'll construct a fake one of the same length as the positions
id=replicate(100,c("id"))
id=data.frame(id)
Here is the structure of the for loop I've tried (edited since first post):
for (j in seq(1,ncol(df3)-1,2)) {
kud <- kernel.area(df3[,j:(j+1)],id=id,kern="bivnorm",unin=c("m"),unout=c("km2"))
print(kud)
}
My end goal is to calculate kernel.area for each resampling event (ie rows 1:100 for every pair of columns up to 200), and be able to combine the results in a dataframe. However, after running the loop, I get this error message:
Error in df[, 1] : incorrect number of dimensions
Edit: I realised my id format was not the same as my data frame, so I change it and now have the error:
Error in kernelUD(xy, id, h, grid, same4all, hlim, kern, extent) :
id should have the same length as xy
First, a disclaimer: I have never worked with the package adehabitat, which has a function kernel.area, which I assume you are using. Perhaps you could confirm which package contains the function in question.
I think there are a couple suggestions I can make that are independent of knowledge of the specific package, though.
The first lies in the creation of df3. This should probably be
df3 <- t(df2), but this is most likely correct in your actual code
and just a typo in your post.
The second suggestion has to do with the way you subset df3 in the
loop. j:j+1 is just a single number, since the : has a higher
precedence than + (see ?Syntax for the order in which
mathematical operations are conducted in R). To get the desired two
columns, use j:(j+1) instead.
EDIT:
When loading adehabitat, I was warned to "Be careful" and use the related new packages, among which is adehabitatHR, which also contains a function kernel.area. This function has slightly different syntax and behavior, but perhaps it would be worthwhile examining. Using adehabitatHR (I had to install from source since the package is not available for R 2.15.0), I was able to do the following.
library(adehabitatHR)
for (j in seq(1,ncol(df3)-1,2)) {
kud <-kernelUD(SpatialPoints(df3[,j:(j+1)]),kern="bivnorm")
kernAr<-kernel.area(kud,unin=c("m"),unout=c("km2"))
print(kernAr)
}
detach(package:adehabitatHR, unload=TRUE)
This prints something, and as is mentioned in a comment below, kernelUD() is called before kernel.area().

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