On Oct 30, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Vadlamani, Satish {FLNA} wrote:
Hi:
In general, how to I cast a character to the class that I am trying
to change.
For example, if I have a data frame df1. df1 has a column x. suppose
I want to a substring of x (the first 3 chars). Then I want to do
something like
df1$new = substring(of x)
Example
Data frame df1
x
abcd
efgh
Now df1$new should be
ab
ef
Following your written specification (rather than your example):
> df1 <- data.frame(x=c("abcd", "efgh"))
> df1
x
1 abcd
2 efgh
> df1$new <- substr(df1$x,start=1,stop=3)
> df1
x new
1 abcd abc
2 efgh efg
Thanks.
Satish
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From: Vadlamani, Satish {FLNA}
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 8:40 AM
To: R-help@r-project.org
Subject: Help with creating some loops
Hi All:
I have a data frame called all_corn. This has 31 columns. The first
column is a character key. The next 15 columns
(stat1,stat2,...,stat15) are the statistical forecast. The last 15
columns (sls1,sls2,...,sls5) are actual sales.
I want to calculate textbook tracking signal and cuulative percent
error.
1) I am showing some of the calculations below. How can I make a
loop out of this instead of manually doing this 15 times?
2) Once All these calculations are done, how do I put all these
columns (err1,err2, etc.) into the same data frame?
Thanks.
attach(all_corn)
cum_sls1 <- sls1
err1 <- sls1-stat1
cum_err1 <- sls1-stat1
cum_abs_err1 <- abs(err1)
mad1 <- abs(cum_err1)/1
cum_pct_err1 <- (ifelse(cum_sls1 > 0, cum_err1/cum_sls1, 1))*100
ts1 <- ifelse(mad1 > 0, cum_err1/mad1, 0)
cum_sls2 <- cum_sls1 + sls2
err2 <- sls2-stat2
cum_err2 <- cum_err1 + sls2-stat2
cum_abs_err2 <- cum_abs_err1 + abs(err2)
mad2 <- cum_abs_err2/2
cum_pct_err2 <- (ifelse(cum_sls2 > 0, cum_err2/cum_sls2, 1))*100
ts2 <- ifelse(mad2 > 0, cum_err2/mad2, 0)
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