On 08/17/2011 11:51 AM, Marius Hofert wrote: > Dear all, > > thanks a lot for the quick help. > Below is what I built with the hint of Nick. > > Cheers, > > Marius > > > library(plyr) > > set.seed(1) > (df <- data.frame(Group=rep(c("Group1","Group2","Group3"), each=10), > Value=c(rexp(10, 1), rexp(10, 4), rexp(10, > 10)))[sample(1:30,30),]) > edf <- function(x) ecdf(x)(x) > > ddply(df, .(Group), function(df.) cbind(df., edf=edf(df.$Value)))
Hadley's code is much shorter, I would use that syntax. cheers, Paul > > On 2011-08-17, at 13:38 , Hadley Wickham wrote: > >>> The following example does what you want using ddply: >>> >>> library(plyr) >>> edfPerGroup = ddply(df, .(Group), summarise, edf = edf(Value), Value = >>> Value) >> Or slightly more succinctly: >> >> ddply(df, .(Group), mutate, edf = edf(Value)) >> >> Hadley >> >> -- >> Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair >> Department of Statistics / Rice University >> http://had.co.nz/ -- Paul Hiemstra, Ph.D. Global Climate Division Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) Wilhelminalaan 10 | 3732 GK | De Bilt | Kamer B 3.39 P.O. Box 201 | 3730 AE | De Bilt tel: +31 30 2206 494 http://intamap.geo.uu.nl/~paul http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/paul-hiemstra/20/30b/770 ______________________________________________ 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.