Hi, Suppose if you have a threshold (say >500), then: dat1<-read.table(text=" AL AR CA NY Doug 250 250 250 NA Jennifer 20 340 300 100 Michele 250 500 250 60 Obama 15 45 520 600 ",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE,sep="") res<-unlist(lapply(split(dat1,rownames(dat1)),function(x) x[x[!is.na(x)]>500])) res Obama.CA Obama.NY 520 600
# And suppose the threshold is >400 res1<-unlist(lapply(split(dat1,rownames(dat1)),function(x) x[x[!is.na(x)]>400])) res1 #Michele.AR Obama.CA Obama.NY # 500 520 600 res1[grep("Obama",names(res1))] #amount received for Obama #Obama.CA Obama.NY # 520 600 length(res1[grep("Obama",names(res1))]) #[1] 2 A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: noobmin <pseudov...@hotmail.com> To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 7:41 AM Subject: Re: [R] How to use tapply with more than one variables grouped I believe that previously could not be understood. To facilitate'll give you an example. Assuming my table is presented below with the amount received from each candidate for president in a particular country state. AL AR CA NY Doug 250 250 250 NA Jennifer 20 340 300 100 Michele 250 500 250 60 Obama 15 45 520 600 I would like to list the states where Obama has higher amount received (ie in CA and NY) and also the number of states, in this case 2. How to do this? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-use-tapply-with-more-than-one-variables-grouped-tp4646948p4647111.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.