Re: [R] apply a function down each column

2010-01-13 Thread Laetitia Schmid
before you do any analysis. -Peter Ehlers Laetitia Schmid wrote: Dear Peter, thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately the star did not help. Did it work for you? For me it seems incomplete somehow. Laetitia ________ From: Peter Ehlers [ehl...@ucalgary.ca] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 09:54 AM T

Re: [R] apply a function down each column

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Ehlers
itia Schmid wrote: Dear Peter, thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately the star did not help. Did it work for you? For me it seems incomplete somehow. Laetitia ____ From: Peter Ehlers [ehl...@ucalgary.ca] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 09:54 AM To: Laetitia Schmid Cc: Steve Lianoglou; r-help@

Re: [R] apply a function down each column

2010-01-12 Thread Laetitia Schmid
Lianoglou; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] apply a function down each column See inline below. Laetitia Schmid wrote: > Dear Steve, > my solution looks like it would work, but it does not. > I attached a text file with an extract of my data. Maybe you can try it > yoursel

Re: [R] apply a function down each column

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Ehlers
See inline below. Laetitia Schmid wrote: Dear Steve, my solution looks like it would work, but it does not. I attached a text file with an extract of my data. Maybe you can try it yourself. I want to compare C1 with M1, C2 with M2, C3 with M3,,, for each column. I do not really know what the

Re: [R] apply a function down each column

2010-01-12 Thread Laetitia Schmid
Dear Steve, my solution looks like it would work, but it does not. I attached a text file with an extract of my data. Maybe you can try it yourself. I want to compare C1 with M1, C2 with M2, C3 with M3,,, for each column. I do not really know what the problem is. R complains about a syntax e

Re: [R] apply a function down each column

2010-01-11 Thread David Winsemius
On Jan 11, 2010, at 9:18 AM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Laetitia Schmid wrote: Hello World, I have a function that makes pairwise comparisons between two strings. I would like to apply this function to my data (which consists of columns with different s

Re: [R] apply a function down each column

2010-01-11 Thread Steve Lianoglou
Hi, On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Laetitia Schmid wrote: > Hello World, > I have a function that makes pairwise comparisons between two strings. I > would like to apply this function to my data (which consists of columns with > different strings) in the way that it compares the first with th

[R] apply a function down each column

2010-01-11 Thread Laetitia Schmid
Hello World, I have a function that makes pairwise comparisons between two strings. I would like to apply this function to my data (which consists of columns with different strings) in the way that it compares the first with the second entry, and then the third with the fourth, and then the fift