Thank you so much!  I can't believe I spent the whole night by not knowing
this one command "do.call"
This is so handy!
Best, Koh


On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:52 AM, R. Michael Weylandt <
michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry -- I missed the bit about the AE in your original post. Perhaps
> you can work with my bit for the repeats, but it looks like if you
> want to use your function, it should suffice to do something like
>
> do.call("rbind", lapply(NewFuncName, 1:6))
>
> Best,
> Michael
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:50 AM, R. Michael Weylandt
> <michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Don't use subset for a function name -- it's already the name of a
> > rather important function as is data (but at least that one's not a
> > function in your use so it's not quite so bad). Finally, use dput()
> > when sending data so we get a plaintext reproducible version.
> >
> > I'd try something like this:
> >
> > dats <- structure(list(Study = c(1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 3L), TX = c(1L,
> > 0L, 1L, 0L, 1L, 0L), AEs = c(3L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L), N = c(5L,
> > 7L, 10L, 7L, 8L, 4L)), .Names = c("Study", "TX", "AEs", "N"), class =
> > "data.frame", row.names = c("1",
> > "2", "3", "4", "5", "6"))
> >
> > # See how handy dput can be :-)
> >
> > dats[unlist(mapply(FUN = function(x,y) rep(x, y), 1:NROW(dats),
> dats$N)), -4]
> >
> > which isn't super elegant, but others might have something better.
> >
> > Best,
> > Michael
> >
> > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Cheenghee AM Koh <sigo...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hello, R-fellows,
> >>
> >> I have a question that I really don't know how to solve. I have spent
> hours
> >> on line surfing for possible solutions but in veil. Please if anyone
> could
> >> help me handle this issue, you would be so appreciated!
> >>
> >> I have a "grouped" dataset like this:
> >>
> >>> data
> >>  Study TX AEs   N
> >> 1     1     1    3       5
> >> 2     1     0    2       7
> >> 3     2     1    1      10
> >> 4     2     0    2       7
> >> 5     3     1    1       8
> >> 6     3     0    1       4
> >>
> >> where Study is the study id, TX is treatment, AEs is how many people in
> >> this trial is positive, and N is the number of the subjects. Therefore,
> for
> >> the row 1, it stands for: It is the treatment arm for the study one,
> where
> >> there are 5 subjects and 3 of them are positive. The row 2 stands for:
> It
> >> is the control arm of the study 1 where there are 7 subjects and 2 of
> them
> >> are positive.
> >>
> >> Now I would like to "un-group them", make it like:
> >>
> >> Study  TX   AEs
> >>   1         1      1
> >>   1         1      1
> >>   1         1      1
> >>   1         1      0
> >>   1         1      0
> >>   1         0      1
> >>   1         0      1
> >>   1         0      0
> >>   1         0      0
> >>   1         0      0
> >>   1         0      0
> >>   1         0      0
> >>   2         1      1
> >>   .....................
> >>  .....................
> >>
> >>
> >> But I wasn't able to do it. In fact I wrote a small function, and use
> >> "lapply" to get what I want. It worked well, and did give me what I
> want.
> >> But I wasn't able to collapse all the returns into one single data frame
> >> for subsequent analysis.
> >>
> >> The function I wrote:
> >>
> >> subset = function(i){
> >> d = c(rep(data[i,1], data[i,4]), rep(data[i,2], data[i,4]), rep(0:1,
> >> c(data[i,4] - data[i,3],data[i,3])))
> >> d = matrix(d, data[i,4],3)
> >> d
> >> }
> >>
> >> then:
> >>
> >> Data = lapply(1:6, subset)
> >> Data
> >>
> >> Therefore, I tried to write a loop. But no matter how I tried, I can't
> get
> >> what I want.
> >>
> >> Any idea?
> >>
> >> Thank you so much!
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cheenghee Masaki Koh, MSW, MS(c), PhD Student
> >> School of Social Service Administration
> >> Department of Health Studies, Division of Biological Science
> >> University of Chicago
> >>
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> >>
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-- 
Cheenghee Masaki Koh, MSW, MS(c), PhD Student
School of Social Service Administration
Department of Health Studies, Division of Biological Science
University of Chicago

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