Re: [R] Casting lists to data.frames, analog to SAS

2009-01-14 Thread Matthew Pettis
Thank you very much -- this was very helpful for differentiating among the aggregating methods! Matt On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote: > on 01/14/2009 02:51 PM Matthew Pettis wrote: >> I have a specific question and a general question. >> >> Specific Question: I want to do an

Re: [R] Casting lists to data.frames, analog to SAS

2009-01-14 Thread Marc Schwartz
on 01/14/2009 02:51 PM Matthew Pettis wrote: > I have a specific question and a general question. > > Specific Question: I want to do an analysis on a data frame by 2 or more > class variables (i.e., use 2 or more columns in a dataframe to do > statistical classing). Coming from SAS, I'm used to

Re: [R] Casting lists to data.frames, analog to SAS

2009-01-14 Thread hadley wickham
> General Question: I assume the answer to the specific question is dependent > on my understanding list objects and accessing their attributes. Can anyone > point me to a good, throrough treatment of these R topics? Specifically how > to read and interpret the output of the str(), and attributes

Re: [R] Casting lists to data.frames, analog to SAS

2009-01-14 Thread David Winsemius
On Jan 14, 2009, at 4:14 PM, David Winsemius wrote: On Jan 14, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Matthew Pettis wrote: I have a specific question and a general question. Specific Question: I want to do an analysis on a data frame by 2 or more class variables (i.e., use 2 or more columns in a dataframe to

Re: [R] Casting lists to data.frames, analog to SAS

2009-01-14 Thread David Winsemius
On Jan 14, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Matthew Pettis wrote: I have a specific question and a general question. Specific Question: I want to do an analysis on a data frame by 2 or more class variables (i.e., use 2 or more columns in a dataframe to do statistical classing). Coming from SAS, I'm used t

[R] Casting lists to data.frames, analog to SAS

2009-01-14 Thread Matthew Pettis
I have a specific question and a general question. Specific Question: I want to do an analysis on a data frame by 2 or more class variables (i.e., use 2 or more columns in a dataframe to do statistical classing). Coming from SAS, I'm used to being able to take a data set and have the output of

[R] Casting lists to data.frames, analog to SAS

2009-01-14 Thread Matthew Pettis
I have a specific question and a general question. Specific Question: I want to do an analysis on a data frame by 2 or more class variables (i.e., use 2 or more columns in a dataframe to do statistical classing). Coming from SAS, I'm used to being able to take a data set and have the output of th