Dear useRs, A colleague has sent me several batches of output I need to process, and I'm struggling with the format to the point that I don't even know how to extract a test set to upload here. My apologies, but I think that my issue is straightforward enough (for some of you, not for me!) that you can help in the absence of a test set. Here is the scenario:
# Data sets are lists: > ls() [1] "res.Callus.Explant" "res.Callus.Regen" "res.Explant.Regen" > is.list(res.Callus.Explant) [1] TRUE # The elements of each list look like this: > names(res.Callus.Explant) [1] "name" "group1" "group2" "alternative" "rows" "counts" [7] "eff.lib.sizes" "dispersion" "x" "beta0" "beta.hat" "beta.tilde" [13] "e" "e1" "e2" "log.fc" "p.values" "q.values" I want to 1) extract specific fields from this data structure into a data frame, 2) subset from this data frame into a new data frame based on selection criteria. What I've done is this: all.comps <- ls(pattern="^res") for(i in all.comps){ obj = i; gene.ids = rownames(obj$counts); x = data.frame(gene.ids = gene.ids, obj$counts, obj$e1, obj$e2, obj$log.fc, obj$p.value, obj$q.value); DiffGenes.i = subset(x, x$obj.p.value<0.05 | x$obj.q.value<=0.1) } Obviously, this doesn't work because pattern searching in the first line is not feeding the entire data structure into the all.comps variable. But how can I accomplish feeding the whole data structure for each one of these lists into the loop? Should I be able to use sapply here? If so, how? Also, I suspect that "DiffGenes.i" is not going to give me the data frame I want, which in the example I'm showing would be "DiffGenes.res.Callus.Explant." How should I name output data frames from a loop like this (if a loop is even the best way to do this)? Any help with this will be greatly appreciated. --Kelly V. ______________________________________________ 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.