Re: [R] Creating submatrices from a dataframe, depending on factors in sample names

2014-12-01 Thread David L Carlson
m: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Bert Gunter Sent: Monday, December 1, 2014 11:46 AM To: Tim Richter-Heitmann Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Creating submatrices from a dataframe, depending on factors in sample names I do not have the patience to study your

Re: [R] Creating submatrices from a dataframe, depending on factors in sample names

2014-12-01 Thread Bert Gunter
I do not have the patience to study your request carefully, but does the following help? > a <- 1:3 > x <- outer(a,a,paste,sep=".") > x [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] "1.1" "1.2" "1.3" [2,] "2.1" "2.2" "2.3" [3,] "3.1" "3.2" "3.3" > x[upper.tri(x)] [1] "1.2" "1.3" "2.3" > x[upper.tri(x,diag=TRUE)] [1

[R] Creating submatrices from a dataframe, depending on factors in sample names

2014-12-01 Thread Tim Richter-Heitmann
Hello there, this is a cross-post of a stack-overflow question, which wasnt answered, but is very important for my work. Apologies for breaking any rules, but i do hope for some help from the list instead: I have a huge matrix of pairwise similarity percentages between different samples. The