Hello, Simon,

see below!


On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Simon wrote:

Hello all,

I have what feels like a simple problem, but I can't find an simple
answer. Consider this data frame:

x <- data.frame(sample1=c(35,176,182,193,124),
sample2=c(198,176,190,23,15), sample3=c(12,154,21,191,156),
class=c('a','a','c','b','c'))

x
 sample1 sample2 sample3 class
1      35     198      12     a
2     176     176     154     a
3     182     190      21     c
4     193      23     191     b
5     124      15     156     c

Now I wish to know: for each sample, for values < 20% of the sample mean,
what percentage of those are class a?

I want to end up with a table like:

  sample1 sample2 sample3
1      1.0     0     0.5


I can't reproduce this result from your description above, but if I understand the latter correctly, maybe the following does what you want:

x.wo.class <- subset( x, select = -class)
  # extract only the sample-columns

x.small.and.a <- x.wo.class < 0.2 * colMeans( x.wo.class) & x$class == "a"

apply( x.small.and.a, 2, function( xx) mean( x$class[ xx] == "a"))


 Hth  --  Gerrit


I can calculate this for an individual sample using this rather clumsy
expression:

length(which(x$sample1 < mean(x$sample1) & x$class=='a')) /
length(which(x$sample1 < mean(x$sample1)))

I'd normally propagate it across the data frame using apply, but I
can't because it depends on more than one column.

Any help much appreciated!

Cheers,

Simon

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