On Feb 2, 2014, at 8:43 AM, arun wrote: > Also, > > > with(d,aggregate(cbind(Nitrogenr=Nitrogen,Respirationr=Respiration),by=list(Soilr=Soil,Stockr=Stock),FUN=mean)) >
Did you compare your output to the input? -- David. > A.K. > > On Sunday, February 2, 2014 7:58 AM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> > wrote: > Hello, > > First of all avoid as.data.frame(cbind(...)). cbind() returns a matrix > and since you are mixing numbers with characters, all of the matrix > elements become character. Then as.data.frame transforms everything into > factors. The correct way is > > d <- data.frame(Stock, Soil, Nitrogen, Respiration) > > > As for your question, try the following. > > r1 <- aggregate(Respiration ~ Soil + Stock, data = d, mean) > r2 <- aggregate(Nitrogen ~ Soil + Stock, data = d, mean) > > merge(r1, r2, all = TRUE) > > > Hope this helps, > > Rui Barradas > > Em 02-02-2014 12:32, Beatriz R. Gonzalez Dominguez escreveu: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to compute a mean on my data but I'm struggling with 2 >> things: 1. getting the right layout and 2. including the missing values >> in the outcome. >> >> #Input data: >> Stock <- c("A", "A", "A", "A", "A", "A", "B", "B", "B", "B", "B", "B") >> Soil <- c("Blank", "Blank", "Control", "Control", "Clay", "Clay", >> "Blank", "Blank", "Control", "Control", "Clay", "Clay") >> Nitrogen <- c(NA, NA, 0, 0, 20, 20, NA, NA, 0, 0, 20, 20) >> Respiration <- c(112, 113, 124, 126, 139, 137, 109, 111, 122, 124, 134, >> 136) >> d <- as.data.frame(cbind(Stock, Soil, Nitrogen, Respiration)) >> >> #Outcome I'd like to get: >> Stockr <- c("A", "A", "A", "B", "B", "B") >> Soilr <- c("Blank", "Control", "Clay", "Blank", "Control", "Clay") >> Nitrogenr <- c(NA, 0, 20, NA, 0, 20) >> Respirationr <- c(111, 125, 138, 110, 123, 135) >> result <- as.data.frame(cbind(Stockr, Soilr, Nitrogenr, Respirationr)) >> >> Many thanks in advance for your help! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Bea >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ 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.