David, Great! 'split' is something I didn't even look at. Owe you one. Many thanks, Dave
On 12/2/09 7:29 PM, "David Winsemius" <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: On Dec 2, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Robinson, David G wrote: > My apologies for this question but I'm stuck and I'm sure that there > must be > an easy answer out there (and hope that someone will have mercy and > point me > in the right direction). > > I have a data file that looks like: > 1 77 3 > 1 8 1 > 1 7 2 > 1 1 5 > 1 42 7 > 1 0 2 > 1 23 1 > 2 83 9 > 2 8 2 > 2 6 5 > 2 23 3 > 3 11 3 > 3 8 1 > . > .... etc. > . > N 3 2 > > > (FWIW, these are document, word reference, and word frequency > counts.) I > want to read the data into data frame, Doc, such that > Doc[[1]]= > [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [,6] [,7] > [1,] 77 8 7 1 42 0 23 > [2,] 3 1 2 5 7 2 1 > > Doc[[2]]= > [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] > [1,] 83 8 6 23 > [2,] 9 2 5 3 > > Etc. rd.txt <- function(txt, header=TRUE) {read.table(textConnection(txt), header=header)} > dta <- rd.txt("1 77 3 + 1 8 1 + 1 7 2 + 1 1 5 + 1 42 7 + 1 0 2 + 1 23 1 + 2 83 9 + 2 8 2 + 2 6 5 + 2 23 3 + 3 11 3 + 3 8 1", header=F) > dta V1 V2 V3 1 1 77 3 2 1 8 1 3 1 7 2 4 1 1 5 5 1 42 7 6 1 0 2 7 1 23 1 8 2 83 9 9 2 8 2 10 2 6 5 11 2 23 3 12 3 11 3 13 3 8 1 > split(dta[ ,-1], list(dta[,1])) $`1` V2 V3 1 77 3 2 8 1 3 7 2 4 1 5 5 42 7 6 0 2 7 23 1 $`2` V2 V3 8 83 9 9 8 2 10 6 5 11 23 3 $`3` V2 V3 12 11 3 13 8 1 > ?split > lapply(split(dta[ ,-1], list(dta[,1])), t) $`1` 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 V2 77 8 7 1 42 0 23 V3 3 1 2 5 7 2 1 $`2` 8 9 10 11 V2 83 8 6 23 V3 9 2 5 3 $`3` 12 13 V2 11 8 V3 3 1 > > > It seems like I should be able to do this using a flat contingency > table > method such as 'read.ftable' or possibly using 'stack' . However, > something > is not clicking and hence my plea for assistance. > > Thanks in advance, > Dave Robinson > dro...@sandia.gov > > ______________________________________________ > 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. David Winsemius, MD Heritage Laboratories West Hartford, CT [[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.