Re: [R] Storing output in an array or matrix

2008-03-06 Thread Erik Iverson
I think you could get this done with the function "tapply", but it's not clear because you don't give an example of your data. If tapply is not the answer, certainly there is a way that is better than resorting to doing it 'by hand' (brute force). See ?tapply Best, Erik Iverson tieflingrogue

[R] Storing output in an array or matrix

2008-03-06 Thread tieflingrogue
I have a data set which has, let's say, income by state. I'm trying to output income quartiles for each state into an array by doing a loop so that I don't have to do it state by state by hand. ie, something like for (i in 1:50) { quantile(subset(data,state==i)$income) -> r[i,5] } where