On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 8:16 AM, rajesh j <akshay.raj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > in a way similar to names(dat), can I address a particular index of every > vector? > like [0] of all the vectors? So that I could do something like, > ints<-which(<required usage>=="x")
Not sure I follow you exactly, but you can use which() with any logical test. Take a look at these examples, are any of them what you mean? example(which) If so (or even before) it would be worth it to read through ?which > > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.ps...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Rajesh, >> >> This will work, unfortunately it seems like lapply() drops the names >> before it passes each element of the list which lead to my clumsy work >> around using which(). I'm sure there are other ways. >> >> dat <- list(INT = c("1","2","3"), >> NUM = c("2.34","4.56","6.78"), >> INT = c("4", "5", "6"), >> NUM = c("3.44")) >> >> ints <- which(names(dat)=="INT") >> nums <- which(names(dat)=="NUM") >> >> dat[ints] <- lapply(dat[ints], as.integer) >> dat[nums] <- lapply(dat[nums], as.numeric) >> >> str(dat) >> >> Cheers, >> >> Josh >> >> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 6:33 AM, rajesh j <akshay.raj...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > The string vector actually comes as a part of a list, and the vector is >> > named "int", and the numbers are strings. I then have to make it a >> > vector >> > that is still called "int" and has 4,5,6 etc. the types are either >> > integer >> > or numeric. The number of items in the vector is unknown. >> > >> > here's an example, >> > >> > a list has vectors >> > >> > INT >> > "2" >> > "3" >> > "4" >> > >> > NUM >> > "2.37" >> > "4.56" >> > >> > >> > >> > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 6:56 PM, David Winsemius >> > <dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> On Sep 5, 2010, at 9:22 AM, rajesh j wrote: >> >> >> >> for e.g., I get the following as a string vector >> >> "int" "4" "5" "6" >> >> after reading the first element, I have to convert this to a integer >> >> vector >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> But what is the right answer? And what number of items are possble per >> >> line? And what are the other possible type identifiers? We need an >> >> example >> >> that has enough complexity to allow testing. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> David. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 6:44 PM, David Winsemius >> >> <dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote: >> >> >> >>> >> >>> On Sep 5, 2010, at 8:48 AM, rajesh j wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Hi, >> >>>> >> >>>> Is it possible to convert a string vector to integer or numeric >> >>>> vector? >> >>>> In >> >>>> my situation I receive data in a string vector and have to convert it >> >>>> based >> >>>> on a given type. >> >>>> >> >>> >> >>> Can you give an example? I don't understand either what sort of >> >>> conversion >> >>> you desire or what you mean by "convert it based on a given type." >> >>> >> >>> There are a couple of function you may want to consider but I am >> >>> having >> >>> difficulty convincing myself they answer the problem posed: >> >>> >> >>> ?charToRaw >> >>> ?stroi >> >>> >> >>> > strtoi(charToRaw("123 this is a string"), base=16) # convert to >> >>> decimal ASCII >> >>> [1] 49 50 51 32 116 104 105 115 32 105 115 32 97 32 115 116 >> >>> 114 >> >>> 105 110 103 >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> >> >>> David Winsemius, MD >> >>> West Hartford, CT >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Rajesh.J >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> David Winsemius, MD >> >> West Hartford, CT >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Rajesh.J >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> > PLEASE do read the posting guide >> > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Joshua Wiley >> Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology >> University of California, Los Angeles >> http://www.joshuawiley.com/ > > > > -- > Rajesh.J > > > -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.