Re: [R] Transformation of a variable in a dataframe

2013-04-17 Thread arun
help Cc: Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:33 AM Subject: [R] Transformation of a variable in a dataframe HI,   I have a dataframe with two variable A, B. I transform the two variable and name them as C, D and save it in a dataframe  dfcd. However, I wonder why can't I call them by dfcd$C an

Re: [R] Transformation of a variable in a dataframe

2013-04-16 Thread David Winsemius
On Apr 16, 2013, at 10:33 PM, jpm miao wrote: HI, I have a dataframe with two variable A, B. I transform the two variable and name them as C, D and save it in a dataframe dfcd. However, I wonder why can't I call them by dfcd$C and dfcd$D? Because you didn't assign them to dfab$C. It's

Re: [R] Transformation of a variable in a dataframe

2013-04-16 Thread Pascal Oettli
Hi, Because a column name exists for "C" and "D": > colnames(C) [1] "A" > colnames(D) [1] "B" One possibility: > A=c(1,2,3) > B=c(4,6,7) > dfab<-data.frame(A,B) > C=dfab$A*2 > D=dfab$B*3 > dfcd<-data.frame(C,D) > dfcd C D 1 2 12 2 4 18 3 6 21 > dfcd$C [1] 2 4 6 HTH, Pascal On 04/17/2013 0

[R] Transformation of a variable in a dataframe

2013-04-16 Thread jpm miao
HI, I have a dataframe with two variable A, B. I transform the two variable and name them as C, D and save it in a dataframe dfcd. However, I wonder why can't I call them by dfcd$C and dfcd$D? Thanks, Miao > A=c(1,2,3) > B=c(4,6,7) > dfab<-data.frame(A,B) > C=dfab["A"]*2 > D=dfab["B"]*3 >