[R] How to find the min and max of two variables in a data frame

2009-07-23 Thread kxk
I have two variables in a data frame, I want to generate two additional variables. For every observations (i.e. every row), I want the first new variable 'min' to carry the minimum of the two existing variables, and I want the second new variable 'max' to carry the maximum of the two existing vari

[R] How to use macro variable in a text string

2009-07-22 Thread kxk
I want to use read.table to input many files, each for a different year. I would like to use the macro variable 't' to refer to the exact file that I would like to input the data using read.table. How could I do this? Thank you! for (t in 1970:2005) { edge <- read.table(file="edge_t.csv", head

[R] How do I delete a row from a data frame when varA == "TRUE"

2009-07-21 Thread kxk
I want to delete a row from a data frame XYZ where A == "TRUE". Let's assume there are five variables in this data frame XYZ. My deletion is based on the TRUE vs. FALSE value under variable A. How do I do this? Thanks! My current code: for (i in 1:length(XYZ$A)) if (XYZ$A == "FALSE") XYZ<-XY