Sure. I have the following command:
sc <- split(x, list(x$Category, x$SubCategory), drop=TRUE) where x is x <- read.csv("Sales2007.dat", header=TRUE) and the first few rows are: DayOfYear,Quantity,Fraction,Category,SubCategory 1,82,0.0000390392720794458,"(Unknown)","(Unknown)" 2,78,0.0000371349173438631,"(Unknown)","(Unknown)" 3,112,0.0000533219325963163,"(Unknown)","(Unknown)" 4,155,0.0000737937460038306,"(Unknown)","(Unknown)" 5,157,0.0000747459233716219,"(Unknown)","(Unknown)" and str(sc) returns something like: . . . . $ T/C.X MEN 3 :'data.frame': 29 obs. of 5 variables: ..$ DayOfYear : int [1:29] 31 37 49 57 63 66 68 78 79 83 ... ..$ Quantity : int [1:29] 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 ... ..$ Fraction : num [1:29] 4.76e-07 9.52e-07 4.76e-07 4.76e-07 9.52e-07 ... ..$ Category : Factor w/ 46 levels "(Unknown)","10\" Plates",..: 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 ... ..$ SubCategory: Factor w/ 246 levels "(Unknown)","70's Disco",..: 246 246 246 246 246 246 246 246 246 246 ... $ Thank You.X MEN 3 :'data.frame': 8 obs. of 5 variables: ..$ DayOfYear : int [1:8] 37 66 240 246 276 287 316 351 ..$ Quantity : int [1:8] 4 2 2 1 2 1 13 3 ..$ Fraction : num [1:8] 1.90e-06 9.52e-07 9.52e-07 4.76e-07 9.52e-07 ... ..$ Category : Factor w/ 46 levels "(Unknown)","10\" Plates",..: 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 ..$ SubCategory: Factor w/ 246 levels "(Unknown)","70's Disco",..: 246 246 246 246 246 246 246 246 Just printing 'sc' gives me something like: . . . $`Pinatas/Accessories.Wiggles` DayOfYear Quantity Fraction Category SubCategory 111180 61 1 4.760887e-07 Pinatas/Accessories Wiggles 111181 88 1 4.760887e-07 Pinatas/Accessories Wiggles 111182 91 1 4.760887e-07 Pinatas/Accessories Wiggles 111183 99 2 9.521774e-07 Pinatas/Accessories Wiggles 111184 102 1 4.760887e-07 Pinatas/Accessories Wiggles . . . Now basically I want to know how to iterate throwgh sc. I can print out sc[[1]] etc. from R console and get something like: > sc[[1]] DayOfYear Quantity Fraction Category SubCategory 1 1 82 3.903927e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) 2 2 78 3.713492e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) 3 3 112 5.332193e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) 4 4 155 7.379375e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) And I know the length of sc is > length(sc) [1] 2415 So basically I want to do some kind of summary statistics for each of these groups from 1 to 2415. I have tried this and it doesn't work but I want something like for(i in 1:length(sc) { mean(sc[[i]]$Quantity) } I would like similar statistics for median, mode, variance, range, etc. for each group Thank you Kevin ---- jim holtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure what your data looks like. Do 'str(sc)' to show the > structure. I created a set and this is what I got: > > > x <- list(sc,sc,sc,sc) > > x > [[1]] > DayOfYear Quantity Fraction Category SubCategory > 1 1 82 3.903927e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) > 2 2 78 3.713492e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) > 3 3 112 5.332193e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) > > [[2]] > DayOfYear Quantity Fraction Category SubCategory > 1 1 82 3.903927e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) > 2 2 78 3.713492e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) > 3 3 112 5.332193e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) > > [[3]] > DayOfYear Quantity Fraction Category SubCategory > 1 1 82 3.903927e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) > 2 2 78 3.713492e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) > 3 3 112 5.332193e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) > > [[4]] > DayOfYear Quantity Fraction Category SubCategory > 1 1 82 3.903927e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) > 2 2 78 3.713492e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) > 3 3 112 5.332193e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) > > > x[[1]] > DayOfYear Quantity Fraction Category SubCategory > 1 1 82 3.903927e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) > 2 2 78 3.713492e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) > 3 3 112 5.332193e-05 (Unknown) (Unknown) > > x[[1]]$Category > [1] (Unknown) (Unknown) (Unknown) > Levels: (Unknown) > > > > not sure exactly what you are working with or trying to do with it. > If the data is not too large, paste the results of 'dput(sc)' in the > email so people can easily reconstruct your data. > ______________________________________________ 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.