Fabulous! I'll start with trying out Reduce, and then explore do.call or converting it to an array if I need to. Thank you Dimitris, Baptiste, and Josh for the very quick help! Best, Tim
>>> Dimitris Rizopoulos <d.rizopou...@erasmusmc.nl> 11/24/2010 2:43 PM >>> try this: DF.lis <- list( one = data.frame(x = c(1,2,3), y = c(1,2,2), z = c(3,1,1)), two = data.frame(x = c(2,5,2), y = c(2,3,1), z = c(4,1,2)) ) Reduce("+", DF.lis) / length(DF.lis) I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris On 11/24/2010 8:37 PM, Tim Howard wrote: > R users, > This probably involves a simple incantation of one of the flavors of apply... > that I can't yet figure out. Consider a list of data frames. I'd like to > apply a function (mean) across the list and return a dataframe of the same > dimensions where each cell represents the mean of that cell across all > dataframes. > > # set up the list > x<- vector("list",2) > names(x)<- c("one","two") > # add data to the list > for(i in 1:2){ > y = i^2 > x[[i]]<- > data.frame("a"=c(y,2*y,3*y),"b"=c(y+1,y+2,y+3),"c"=c(2*y+1,2*y+2,2*y+3)) > } > #show the list >> x > $one > a b c > 1 1 2 3 > 2 2 3 4 > 3 3 4 5 > > $two > a b c > 1 4 5 9 > 2 8 6 10 > 3 12 7 11 > #the result should be > a b c > 1 2.5 3.5 6 > 2 5 4.5 7 > 3 7.5 5.5 8 > > Can anyone direct me down the right path? > > Thanks in advance > Tim Howard > > > > > [[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. > -- Dimitris Rizopoulos Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics Erasmus University Medical Center Address: PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, the Netherlands Tel: +31/(0)10/7043478 Fax: +31/(0)10/7043014 Web: http://www.erasmusmc.nl/biostatistiek/ [[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.