You need to *print* results explicitly within a for-loop.
E.g. print(head(d_dataset[, c(paste0("v_turnover_",year), paste0("v_customer_", year))])) See FAQ 7.16 for a related discussion. cheers, Rolf Turner -- Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 On 06/09/16 11:54, g.maub...@weinwolf.de wrote:
Hi All, I would like to write a program that iterates over a set of dynamically generated variables and produces some stats or prints parts of the data. # --- data v_turnover_2011 <- c(10, 20, 30, 40 , 50) v_customer_2011 <- c(0, 1, NA, 0, 1) v_turnover_2012 <- c(10, 20, 30, 40 , 50) v_customer_2012 <- c(0, 1, NA, 0, 1) d_dataset <- data.frame(v_turnover_2011, v_turnover_2012, v_customer_2011, v_customer_2012) # -- Aim is to iterate over dynamically generated variables and compute # -- statistics or print parts of the data # -- Does not produce any output for (year in 2011:2012) { head(d_dataset[, c(paste0("v_turnover_", year), paste0("v_customer_", year))]) } # -- Does not produce any output aux_func <- function(year) { head(d_dataset[, c(paste0("v_turnover_", year), paste0("v_customer_", year))]) } for (year in 2011:2012) { aux_func(year = year) } d_results <- data.frame() for (year in 2011:2012) { d_results <- rbind(d_results, paste0("mean", year) = mean(d_dataset[, c(paste0("v_turnover_", year))])) } Is there a way to iterate over variables and compute statistics and print parts of the dataset?
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