Want to thank everyone once more for pointing in "reshape" direction. Saved me about 16 hours of looping! Dimitri
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski <dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> wrote: > In reshape2 this does the job: > > dcast(mydf,city~brand,sum) > > > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski > <dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks a lot! >> >> Yes - I just found the reshape package too - and guess what, my math was >> wrong! >> reshape2 seems like the more up-to-date version of reshape. >> >> Wonder what's faster - xtabs or dcast... >> Dimitri >> >> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Henrique Dallazuanna <www...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Try this: >>> >>> xtabs(value ~ city + brand, mydf) >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski >>> <dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello! >>>> >>>> I have a data frame like this one: >>>> >>>> >>>> mydf<-data.frame(city=c("a","a","a","a","a","a","a","a","b","b","b","b","b","b","b","b"), >>>> brand=c("x","x","y","y","z","z","z","z","x","x","x","y","y","y","z","z"), >>>> value=c(1,2,11,12,111,112,113,114,3,4,5,13,14,15,115,116)) >>>> (mydf) >>>> >>>> What I need to get is a data frame like the one below - cities as >>>> rows, brands as columns, and the sums of the "value" within each >>>> city/brand combination in the body of the data frame: >>>> >>>> city x y z >>>> a 3 23 336 >>>> b 7 42 231 >>>> >>>> >>>> I have written a code that involves multiple loops and subindexing - >>>> but it's taking too long. >>>> I am sure there must be a more efficient way of doing it. >>>> >>>> Thanks a lot for your hints! >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dimitri Liakhovitski >>>> Ninah Consulting >>>> www.ninah.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. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Henrique Dallazuanna >>> Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil >>> 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dimitri Liakhovitski >> Ninah Consulting >> www.ninah.com >> > > > > -- > Dimitri Liakhovitski > Ninah Consulting > www.ninah.com > -- Dimitri Liakhovitski Ninah Consulting www.ninah.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.