Thank you so much for trying to help me.
Thus, I still can't get it to work. I will clearify a bit. If you somehow have time helping me I would much appreciate it. NAD and Prot.amount are both data.frames. There are several different dataframes called NAD,NAD1, NAD2 etc. that I would like to run the loop over. Prot.amount has all the samplenames as its row.names and the correct values as Prot.amount[,1]. Thus, the NADs are data.frames with values for the samples, they DO NOT contain all the samples. > NAD[1:3,1:3] Sample.Id Main.abs..1 Main.abs..2 148 10a 0.04836 0.04994 167 11a_1109 0.32245 0.36541 173 11b_1109 0.29293 0.32815 > Prot.amount[1:3,1] > 10a 11a_1109 11b_1109 15.516 38.248 42.297 > dim(Prot.amount) [1] 30 1 > dim(NAD) [1] 23 12 The thing I want to do is to replace the sample name with the correct Prot.amount. So that in all dataframes where I have for instance sample 10a i want to have a column with its corresponding prot.amount, here 15.516. Sample.id=row.names(Prot.amount) gives a vector with all the correct sample.id's new.id=Prot.amount[1:nrow(Prot.amount),] gives all the samples and their correct prot.amounts. > new.id[1:8] 10a 11a_1109 11b_1109 12a_1109 12b_1109 1a_1109 2a 2a_1009 15.516 38.248 42.297 36.134 25.467 28.184 9.927 2.242 iddf <- data.frame((Sample.id=row.names(Prot.amount)), new.id=Prot.amount[1:nrow(Prot.amount),]) Thus, newNAD <- merge( NAD, iddf) > newNAD[4,] Sample.Id Main.abs..1 Main.abs..2 Main.abs..3 Main.abs..4 Main.abs..5 Main.abs..6 Main.abs..7 Main.abs..8 Main.abs..9 4 12a_1109 0.26291 0.26794 0.27809 0.28948 0.29654 0.3051 0.31388 0.3223 0.33066 Main.abs..10 Main.abs..11 X.Sample.id...row.names.Prot.amount.. new.id 4 0.33806 0.34577 10a 15.516 Produces the correct looking dataframe, only that the first sample.id and corresponding Prot.amount gets merged to all rows. So what I need to do is a loop. This is my suggestion: Changing<-function(A){ tmp<-mat.or.vec(nr=nrow(A),nc=1) newNAD <-mat.or.vec(nr=nrow(A),nc=1) for (j in 1:nrow(A)) { tmp[j] <- data.frame((A$Sample.id=row.names(Prot.amount)), (A$new.id=Prot.amount[j,])) newNAD <- merge(A[j,], tmp[j]) } newNAD } Thus, of course it doesn't work that easily. This is becouse > Changing(NAD) Error in `$<-.data.frame`(`*tmp*`, "Sample.id", value = c("10a", "11a_1109", : replacement has 30 rows, data has 23 meaning the dataframe NAD with the samples have 23 samples, the Prot.amounts file have 30 different samples and their corresponding values. How do I include into the loop that I only want to replace those Prot.amount values found in the NAD dataframe? Thank you so much! > Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:35:31 -0700 > To: monn...@hotmail.com; r-help@r-project.org > From: m...@llnl.gov > Subject: Re: [R] Replacing values in dataframes > > What I would probably do is along these lines: > > iddf <- data.frame(Sample.id=names(Prot.amount), new.id=Prot.amount[1,]) > > newNAD <- merge( NAD, iddf) > > This is not tested, but it looks right to me, > assuming I understand the structure of what > you're trying to do. > > I'm also assuming that NAD has more than three > rows, and that Prot.amount has as many columns as > NAD has rows. And that you just showed us the > first three rows of NAD and first three columns > of Prot.amount in order to keep the email simple. > > One final note ... if Prot.amount is an object > within R, it is *not* a file. You may have read > it in from a file, of course, but it isn't a file > inside R. I'm assuming it's a dataframe. > > -Don > > At 1:18 PM +0300 9/19/09, Monna Nygård wrote: > >Hi, > > > > > > > >This is a question of a newbie getting into the exciting world of R. > > > > > > > >I have several dataframes in the same format as NAD: > > > > > > > > > > > >> NAD[1:3,1:3] > > > > Sample.Id Main.abs..1 Main.abs..2 > >148 10a 0.04836 0.04994 > >167 11a_1109 0.32245 0.36541 > >173 11b_1109 0.29293 0.32815 > > > > > >What I want to do is to replace the Sample.Id > >with a corresponding number.The number i have in > >another file,called Prot.amount > > > > > > > >> Prot.amount[1:3,1] > > 10a 11a_1109 11b_1109 > > 15.516 38.248 42.297 > > > > > > > > > > > >> row.names(NAD)<-(NAD[,1]) > >> NAD$Sample.Id <- replace(NAD$Sample.Id, > >>NAD$Sample.Id=="10a",Prot.amount["10a",1]) > > > >> NAD[1:3,1:3] > > Sample.Id Main.abs..1 Main.abs..2 > >10a 15.516 0.04836 0.04994 > >11a_1109 11a_1109 0.32245 0.36541 > >11b_1109 11b_1109 0.29293 0.32815 > > > > > > > >So what I have tried to do is to write a > >function that would allow me to replace the > >values automatically of all dataframes. This I > >just can't get to work. > > > > > > > >Thank you so much in advance! > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > >[[elided Hotmail spam]] > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > >______________________________________________ > >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. > > > -- > --------------------------------- > Don MacQueen > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > Livermore, CA, USA > 925-423-1062 > m...@llnl.gov > --------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ [[elided Hotmail spam]] [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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