HI, You can subset the data
dados433<-subset(dados,dados[,3]=="433") is.matrix(dados433) #[1] TRUE dados433 date value code 1 "2012-01-01" "0.56" "433" 2 "2012-02-01" "0.45" "433" 3 "2012-03-01" "0.21" "433" 4 "2012-04-01" "0.64" "433" 5 "2012-05-01" "0.36" "433" 6 "2012-06-01" "0.08" "433" dados2005<-subset(dados,dados[,3]=="2005") dados3939<-subset(dados,dados[,3]=="3939") #or split the data dados1<-as.data.frame(dados) dados2<-split(dados1,dados1$code) ----- Original Message ----- From: Henrique Andrade <henrique.coe...@gmail.com> To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Monday, August 6, 2012 1:06 PM Subject: [R] Splitting Data Into Different Series Dear R Community, I'm trying to write a loop to split my data into different series. I need to make a new matrix (or series) according to the series code. For instance, every time the "code" column assumes the value "433" I need to save "date", "value", and "code" into the "dados433" matrix. Please take a look at the following example: dados <- matrix(c("2012-01-01","2012-02-01","2012-03-01","2012-04-01","2012-05-01","2012-06-01", "2012-01-01","2012-02-01","2012-03-01","2012-04-01","2012-05-01","2012-06-01", "2012-01-01","2012-02-01","2012-03-01","2012-04-01","2012-05-01","2012-06-01", 0.56,0.45,0.21,0.64,0.36,0.08,152136,153081,155872,158356,162157,166226, 33.47,34.48,35.24,38.42,35.33,34.43,433,433,433,433,433,433,2005,2005,2005, 2005,2005,2005,3939,3939,3939,3939,3939,3939), nrow=18, ncol=3, byrow=FALSE, dimnames=list(c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18), c("date", "value", "code"))) dados433 <- matrix(data = NA, nrow = 6, ncol = 3, byrow= FALSE) dados2005 <- matrix(data = NA, nrow = 6, ncol = 3, byrow= FALSE) dados3939 <- matrix(data = NA, nrow = 6, ncol = 3, byrow= FALSE) for(i in seq(along=dados[,3])) { if(dados[i,3] == 433) {dados433[i,1:3] <- dados[i,1:3]} } for(i in seq(along=dados[,3])) { if(dados[i,3] == 2005) {dados2005[i,1:3] <- dados[i,1:3]} } for(i in seq(along=dados[,3])) { if(dados[i,3] == 3939) {dados3939[i,1:3] <- dados[i,1:3]} } Best regards, Henrique Andrade ______________________________________________ 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.