Hi Dimitri,
I changed this into a reproducible example (we don't know what myvars
is). Assuming length(myvars) > 1, I'm not convinced that your first
five lines "work" either: what do you expect?
I get:
> by(data = iris[, -5], INDICES = iris["Species"], FUN = min)
Species: setosa
[1] 0.1
------------------------------------------------------------------
Species: versicolor
[1] 1
------------------------------------------------------------------
Species: virginica
[1] 1.4
But was expecting:
> aggregate(iris[,-5], by=iris[,"Species", drop=FALSE], FUN=min)
Species Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width
1 setosa 4.3 2.3 1.0 0.1
2 versicolor 4.9 2.0 3.0 1.0
3 virginica 4.9 2.2 4.5 1.4
aggregate(iris[,-5], by=iris[,"Species", drop=FALSE], FUN=sd)
aggregate(iris[,-5], by=iris[,"Species", drop=FALSE], FUN=mean)
provide the answers I would expect. If you want clearer advice, you
need to provide an actually reproducible example, and tell us more
about what you expect to get.
Sarah
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski
<dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
> Could you please explain why the first 5 lines work but the last 2 lines
> don't?
> Thank you!
>
> by(data = iris[myvars], INDICES = iris["Species"], FUN = summary)
> by(data = iris[myvars], INDICES = iris["Species"], FUN = sum)
> by(data = iris[myvars], INDICES = iris["Species"], FUN = var)
> by(data = iris[myvars], INDICES = iris["Species"], FUN = max)
> by(data = iris[myvars], INDICES = iris["Species"], FUN = min)
>
> by(data = iris[myvars], INDICES = iris["Species"], FUN = sd)
> by(data = iris[myvars], INDICES = iris["Species"], FUN = mean)
>
> --
> Dimitri Liakhovitski
>
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