1) In general, *apply functions return a list with the number of elements equal to the number of columns or other elements of the input data. You can assign that list as I have to "spout" in the first example.
2) spout<-list() assigns the name "spout" to an empty list. As we are processing columns 2 to 12 of the input data, spout[[i-1]] assigns the results to elements 1 to 11 of the list "spout". Just a low trick. 1a) Yes, you can create a "wrapper" function that will return only the statistic and p.value. # create a function that returns only the # statistic and p.value as a string archStatP<-function(x) { archout<-ArchTest(x) return(sprintf("ChiSq = %f, p = %f",archout$statistic,archout$p.value)) } # using "lapply", run the test on each column spout<-lapply(sp_8_5[,2:12],archStatP) Note that I should have used "lapply". I didn't check the output carefully enough. 2a) Now you only have to separate the strings in "spout" with TAB characters and import the result into Excel. I have to wash the dishes, so you're on your own. Jim On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 8:26 PM Subhamitra Patra <subhamitra.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Sir, > > Thank you very much for such an excellent solution to my problem. I was > trying sapply function since last days, but was really unable to write > properly. Now, I understood my mistake in using sapply function in the > code. Therefore, I have two queries regarding this which I want to discuss > here just for my learning purpose. > > 1. While using sapply function for estimating one method across the > columns of a data frame, one needs to define the list of the output table > after using sapply so that the test results for each column will be > consistently stored in an output object, right? > > 2. In the spout<- list() command, what spout[[i-1]] indicates? > > Sir, one more possibility which I would like to ask related to my above > problem just to learn for further R programming language. > > After running your suggested code, all the results for each column are > being stored in the spout object. From this, I need only the statistics and > P-value for each column. So, my queries are: > > 1. Is there any way to extract only two values (i.e., statistics and > p-value) for each column that stored in spout object and save these two > values in another R data frame for each column? > or > 2. Is there any possibility that the statistics and p-value calculated for > each column can directly export to a word file in a table format (having 4 > columns and 3 rows). In particular, is it possible to extract both > statistic and p-value results for each column to an MS word file with the > format of A1, A2, A3, A4 column results in 1st row, A5, A6, A7, A8 column > results in 2nd row, and A9, A10, A11, A12 column results in the 3rd row of > the table? > > > Like before, your suggestion will definitely help me to learn the advanced > R language. > > Thank you very much for your help. > > [image: Mailtrack] > <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=signaturevirality5&> > Sender > notified by > Mailtrack > <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=signaturevirality5&> > 05/08/20, > 03:47:26 PM > > On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 2:37 PM Jim Lemon <drjimle...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Subhamitra, >> This isn't too hard: >> >> # read in the sample data that was >> # saved in the file "sp_8_5.tab" >> sp_8_5<-read.table("sp_8_5.tab",sep="\t", >> header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) >> library(tseries) >> library(FinTS) >> # using "sapply", run the test on each column >> spout<-sapply(sp_8_5[,2:12],ArchTest) >> >> The list "spout" contains the test results. If you really want to use a >> loop: >> >> spout<-list() >> for(i in 2:12) spout[[i-1]]<-ArchTest(sp_8_5[,i]) >> >> Jim >> >> >> On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 5:27 PM Subhamitra Patra < >> subhamitra.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Dear Sir, >>> >>> Herewith I am pasting a part of my sample data having 12 columns below, >>> and want to calculate ARCH test for the 12 columns by using a loop. >>> >>> > > -- > *Best Regards,* > *Subhamitra Patra* > *Phd. Research Scholar* > *Department of Humanities and Social Sciences* > *Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur* > *INDIA* > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.