Even though it's not needed, here's a small followup.
I usually use this
split(x, paste(x$let,x$g))
But since
split(x, list(x$let,x$g))
works, so does
split(x, x[,c('let','g')])
> all.equal( split(x, x[,c('let','g')]) , split(x,list(x$let,x$g)))
[1] TRUE
As to which is the best, hard to say. If the variable names you want to
split by are held in character vector, then the third one has an advantage
splt.by <- c('let','g')
split(x, x[,splt.by] )
If x were large, and the number of columns to split by were large, there
might be performance differences, but I suspect they would have to be
*very* large before it mattered.
-Don
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On 9/1/11 11:08 AM, "Changbin Du" <changb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Thanks for the great helps from David, Jim and Liviu. It solved my
>problem.
>
>Appreciated!
>
>On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:01 AM, David Winsemius
><dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sep 1, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Changbin Du wrote:
>>
>> HI, Dear R community,
>>>
>>> I want to split a data frame by using two variables: let and g
>>>
>>> x = data.frame(num =
>>>>
>>> c(10,11,12,43,23,14,52,52,12,**23,21,23,32,31,24,45,56,56,76,**45),
>>>let =
>>> letters[1:5], g = 1:2)
>>>
>>>> x
>>>>
>>> num let g
>>> 1 10 a 1
>>> 2 11 b 2
>>> 3 12 c 1
>>> 4 43 d 2
>>> 5 23 e 1
>>> 6 14 a 2
>>> 7 52 b 1
>>> 8 52 c 2
>>> 9 12 d 1
>>> 10 23 e 2
>>> 11 21 a 1
>>> 12 23 b 2
>>> 13 32 c 1
>>> 14 31 d 2
>>> 15 24 e 1
>>> 16 45 a 2
>>> 17 56 b 1
>>> 18 56 c 2
>>> 19 76 d 1
>>> 20 45 e 2
>>>
>>> I tried the following:
>>>
>>> xs = split(x,x$g*x$let)
>>>
>>
>> Probably
>>
>> xs = split(x,list(x$g,x$let))
>>
>>>
>>> *Warning message:
>>> In Ops.factor(x$g, x$let) : * not meaningful for factors*
>>>
>>>
>>> xs = split(x,c(x$g*x$let))
>>>
>>> *Warning message:
>>> In Ops.factor(x$g, x$let) : * not meaningful for factors
>>> *
>>>
>>> Can someone give some hints?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Changbin
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>>
>> David Winsemius, MD
>> West Hartford, CT
>>
>>
>
>
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>Changbin
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