In your loop, you assign, for example, pv twice pv=w$p.value # pv is scalar pv[i]= w[2] # pv is a vector
give an example for the point pv=1 pv[5]=2 pv [1] 1 NA NA NA 2 This may not be what you want. Weidong On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Seb <seba....@gmail.com> wrote: > y1,y2 were designed as follow,from the original data file : > y1=data[,1:2] > y2=data[,3:4] > > ...I am a bit confused with what "redesign the whole vector again" and > "specify indices twice " actually mean?...could u point it out in the > script? > > Thanks so much I really appreciate it!! > > Sent from my -DROID- > > On Oct 26, 2011 6:56 PM, "Weidong Gu" wrote: >> >> If you provide an example data (y1 and y2 in the loop), you might have >> got specific helps already. A few things in your loop seem suspicious. >> fc and pv are vectors, and in each loop you redesigned the whole >> vectors and specific indices twice. That may cause your problems. >> >> Weidong Gu >> >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Seb <seba....@gmail.com> wrote: >> > hi all >> > >> > i started recently using R and i found myself stuck when i try to >> > analyze microarray data. >> > >> > i use the "affy" package to obtain the intensities of the probes, i >> > have two CTRs and two treated. >> > >> > HG.U133A.Experiment1.CEL HG.U133A.Experiment2.CEL >> > HG.U133A_Control1.CEL HG.U133A_Control2.CEL >> > 1007_s_at 2156.23115 467.75615 >> > 364.60615 362.11865 >> > 1053_at 88.76368 93.58436 >> > 438.49365 357.75615 >> > 117_at 144.00743 101.26120 >> > 95.11117 107.01623 >> > 121_at 551.36865 639.45615 >> > 456.66865 435.95615 >> > 1255_g_at 65.33164 18.39570 >> > 14.22565 20.74632 >> > 1294_at 106.19083 169.69369 >> > 78.15722 81.14689 >> > >> > i divided the first two columns in two data.frames to divide Experim and > CTRs >> > >> > then, i created a FOR loop to create a vector per each row containing >> > a vector with two values per each gene and i wanted to do a >> > Wilcox.test to obtain the significant genes..BUT i get a list of NULL >> > like you can see here >> > ..the first row works but then i get NULL down till the end of the > array... >> > >> > fc pv >> > [1,] "1007_s_at" -20.248 0.4664612 >> > [2,] "1053_at" -344.7132 NULL >> > [3,] "117_at" NULL NULL >> > [4,] "121_at" NULL NULL >> > [5,] "1255_g_at" NULL NULL >> > [6,] "1294_at" NULL NULL >> > >> > the script i used is: >> > =================== >> > fc=0 >> > pv=0 >> > for (i in 1:nrow(data)) >> > { >> > v1= c(y1[i,1], y1[i,2]) >> > v2= c(y2[i,1], y2[1,2]) >> > fc=v1-v2 >> > w=t.test(v1,v2) >> > pv=w$p.value >> > fc[i]= w[1] >> > pv[i]= w[2] >> > } >> > >> > results = cbind(row.names(y1), fc, pv) >> > >> > head(results) >> > >> > ================ >> > >> > what did i do wrong? i can't find a way around this!!! >> > >> > thanks so much!!! >> > >> > Seb >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > 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. >> > > > [[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.