Colleagues,
I am trying to understand the syntax of a function passed to apply. The code
below generates a matrix, and passes the matrix to a function that is called by
apply. I don't understand the syntax of the function. In some way the function
computes data[,"delta"]/data[,"SE"]. I can't understand how the body of the
function, x[c1]/x[c2] refers to the columns "data" and "SE" of the matrix data.
Can someone help me understand the syntax?
Thank you,
John
myfun <- function(x, c1, c2) x[c1]/x[c2]
apply(data,1,myfun,c1="delta",c2="SE")
CODE:
data<-matrix(data=c(-0.70 ,-0.90, -0.50, 20, 20,
-0.30 ,-0.43, -0.17, 43, 43,
-0.50 ,-1.05, 0.05, 16, 18,
0.00 ,-0.21, 0.21, 22, 23,
-1.30 ,-1.48, -1.12, 28, 32,
-0.90 ,-1.01, -0.79, 18, 15,
-0.20 ,-0.47, 0.07, 39, 39,
-0.30 ,-0.83, 0.23, 27, 27),
nrow=8,ncol=5,byrow=TRUE)
dimnames(data) <- list(NULL,c("delta","low","high","n1","n2"))
data
CI <- data[,"high"]-data[,"low"]
data <- cbind(data,CI)
data
data <- cbind(data,SE=data[,"CI"]/(4*1.96))
data
data <- cbind(data,SD=data[,"SE"]*sqrt(data[,"n1"]+data[,"n2"]))
data
myfun <- function(x, c1, c2) x[c1]/x[c2]
apply(data,1,myfun,c1="delta",c2="SE")
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