How about aggregate(TestData[,c('VAR1','VAR2','VAR3')], by=list(id=TestData$ID), FUN=max)
-- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 6/20/14 12:42 PM, "Jun Shen" <jun.shen...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi all, > >Here is my situation. I have a dataframe, the structure would be something >like this, > >TestData<-data.frame(ID=rep(1:10,each=10),TIME=rep(seq(0.1,1,0.1),10),VAR1 >=rnorm(100),VAR2=5*rnorm(100),VAR3=10*rnorm(100)) > >Basically, I want to extract the maximum value from each ID for VAR1, >VAR2, >VAR3...... > >The way I can think of is > >do.call(rbind,lapply(split(TestData,TestData$ID),function(x)x[which.max(x$ >VAR1),'VAR1'])) > >and do this for each of the variables and put the results back. It's kind >of clumsy but OK for several variables. I have dozens of them. Is there a >better way to do it? > >It would be ideal to produce the results like > > ID VAR1.max VAR2.max VAR3.max 1 1.2828796 8.63276 15.051992 2 >1.1870067 >8.691801 10.736301 3 1.2815352 6.335692 5.827524 4 1.6719411 5.998597 >16.646212 5 1.5631107 6.067457 15.331046 6 0.718989 6.610279 7.306005 7 >0.8734315 13.39844 16.965365 8 2.7447862 10.21613 22.545131 9 3.490395 >10.83543 25.744662 10 0.4719087 11.73021 7.226687 >Thanks for any help. > >Jun Shen > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >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.