Great help. It works when the first and the second columns are ordered the
same way. But aggregate does not work for the following case:
z=c('ab','ah','bc','ah','dv')
x=substr(z,start=1,stop=1)
y=substr(z,start=2,stop=2)
v1=5:9
v2=7:11
data=data.frame(x,y,z,v1,v2)
> data
x y z v1 v2
1 a b ab 5 7
2 a h ah 6 8
3 b c bc 7 9
4 a h ah 8 10
5 d v dv 9 11
##I want to do the aggregate WRT z and sum up v1 and v2. The expected output
is:
x y z v1 v2
1 a b ab 5 7
2 a h ah 14 18
3 b c bc 7 9
4 d v dv 9 11
### I do this almost manually. As you see here:
newdata=aggregate(data$v1,by=list(data$z),sum)
newdata2=aggregate(data$v2,by=list(data$z),sum)
x=substr(newdata$Group.1,start=1,stop=1)
y=substr(newdata$Group.1,start=2,stop=2)
data.frame(x,y,newdata$Group.1,newdata$x,newdata2$x)
new=data.frame(x,y,newdata$Group.1,newdata$x,newdata2$x)
names(new)=c('x','y','z','v1','v2')
new
Because I do not think 'aggregate' can not set z as a list and at the same
time keep x and y for z.
Any tips? I mean my way is too 'silly'.
Thanks all in advance!
Yi
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Nikhil Kaza <nikhil.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> aggregate(data$third, by=list(data$first), sum)
>
> or
>
> reqiure(reshape)
> cast(melt(data), ~first, sum)
>
>
>
> On Jun 28, 2010, at 9:30 PM, Yi wrote:
>
>
>> first=c('u','b','e','k','j','c','u','f','c','e')
>> second
>> =
>> c
>> ('usa
>> ','Brazil
>> ','England','Korea','Japan','China','usa','France','China','England')
>> third=1:10
>> data=data.frame(first,second,third)
>>
>
>
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