Try summaryBy in the doBy package. e.g. using the built-in CO2 summarize each numeric variable by each factor except for the factors Plant and Type:
library(doBy) summaryBy(. ~ ., data = subset(CO2, select = - c(Plant, Type))) On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Ivan Calandra <ivan.calan...@uni-hamburg.de> wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I'm working on R today so I have a lot of questions (you may have > noticed that it's the 3rd email today). I'm new on R, so please excuse > the "spam"! > > I have a dataset "ssfa" with many rows and the column names are: > > names(ssfa) > [1] "SPECSHOR" "BONE" "TO_POS" "MEASUREM" "FACETTE" "SHEARFAC" > [7] "ENA_BA" "SEL_FACET" "SEL_MEAS" "Asfc" "Smc" "epLsar" > [13] "HAsfc4" "HAsfc9" "HAsfc16" "HAsfc25" "HAsfc36" "HAsfc49" > [19] "HAsfc64" "HAsfc81" "HAsfc100" "HAsfc121" "Tfv" "Ftfv" > > I want to aggregate that way: > ssfamean <- aggregate(ssfa[c("Asfc", "Smc", "epLsar", "HAsfc4", > "HAsfc9", "HAsfc16", "HAsfc25", "HAsfc36", "HAsfc49", "HAsfc64", > "HAsfc81", "HAsfc100", "HAsfc121", "Tfv", "Ftfv")], ssfa[c("SPECSHOR", > "BONE", "TO_POS", "FACETTE", "SHEARFAC", "ENA_BA")], mean). > > As you can see, it is very long since I have many variables. Basically I > want to select all numerical variables (10 to 24), and all categorical > variables except MEASUREM, SEL_FACET and SEL_MEAS without having to > write each of them. I would also like to avoid writing the names, the > indexes would be nice. > I tried with: > > ssfamean <- aggregate(ssfa[c(ssfa[[10]]:ssfa[[24]])], > ssfa[c("SPECSHOR", "BONE", "TO_POS", "FACETTE", "SHEARFAC", "ENA_BA")], > mean) > but it obviously doesn't work (well "obviously"...) > > Could anyone help me on this? > Thanks in advance > Ivan > > [[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. > ______________________________________________ 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.