Please start by read ing An Introduction to R. You need to understand R data structures and how it works AS A LANGUAGE. Forget about Minitab (while you are in R).
?tapply -- Bert On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Wainscott, Robert LT <robert.wainsc...@cvn74.navy.mil> wrote: > On R 2.12 for Mac OSX, I have a dataset with both numerical and > character values. > > > > I want to split dataset "ZIDL", into individual datasets based on the > string content of variable "Dept". > > > > I can create one subset dataset at a time using a script I found on the > net, but rather than run the same function 17 times, can R look at the > "Dept" variable and create subset datasheets of the main datasheet (one > for each department) with a single command? > > > > In Minitab, this would be the "Split Worksheet" function. > > > > I am horrible at scripting, but trying to learn fast. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Robert > > > [[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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
