I'm on my phone so I can't verify this but have you tried the apply function?
apply(attri,2,Moran.I,Locate.dists.inv,NA.rm=T) Michael Weylandt On Aug 4, 2011, at 4:54 PM, Scott Seely <sse...@thetus.com> wrote: > Dear R users, > > I have two data frames that consist of statistical information for most > countries around the world. One dataframe consists of the latitude and > longitude ("coord.csv") of each country, while the other consists of 100's > of different attributes ("countryattri.csv") for each country (like, GDP, > Population, etc.). The data is organized with a header and then countries > down the first column. I'm trying to run a spatial autocorrelation for each > column or attribute in the "attri" dataframe. The process for running this > on a single column is as follows: > > example of "coord.csv" dataframe: > > country, lat, long > Albania, 41.00, 20.00 > Algeria, 28.00, 3.00 > Angola, -12.30, 18.30 > > example of "countryattri.csv" dataframe: > > country, GDP, Population > Albania, 100000, 20000 > Algeria, 1200000, 300000 > Angola, 1300000, 300000 > >> Locate<-read.csv("coord.csv", header = TRUE, sep = ",") >> Locate.dists<-as.matrix(dist(cbind(Locate$long, Locate$lat))) >> Locate.dists.inv<-1/((Locate.dists)^2) >> diag(Locate.dists.inv)<-0 >> attri<-read.csv("countryattri.csv", header = TRUE, sep = ",") >> Moran.I(attri$GDP, Locate.dists.inv, na.rm = TRUE) > > This gives you Moran's I (correlation coefficient) for the GDP column in the > "attri" dataframe. I am trying to run the Moran.I function as a loop for all > columns in the "attri" dataframe so that I can obtain Moran coefficients for > every attribute. > > I've tried a number of different approaches but cannot get a column loop to > run through this function. I would be very grateful if someone could help me > with this problem. > > Thank you, > > *Scott Seely* > p.s. the Moran.I function is a part of the "ape" package. > > [[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.