Re: [R] how to address last and all but last column in dataframe

2008-09-06 Thread David Winsemius
On Sep 6, 2008, at 4:24 PM, drflxms wrote: Hello Mr. Burns, Hello Mr. Dwinseminus snip David, the "input" data.frame is the result of the reshape-command I performed. I just copied it from the R-console into the e-mail. In fact the first column "video" is not part of the data, but neede

Re: [R] how to address last and all but last column in dataframe

2008-09-06 Thread drflxms
Hello Mr. Burns, Hello Mr. Dwinseminus thank you very much for your incredible quick and efficient reply! I was completely successful with the following command: pairs<-data.frame(pred=factor(unlist(input[,-c(1,ncol(input))])),ref=factor(input[,ncol(input)])) In case of the "input" example data.

Re: [R] how to address last and all but last column in dataframe

2008-09-06 Thread Mark Difford
Hi Felix, >> My problem is now, that I analyse data.frames with an unknown count of >> columns. So to get rid of the first and last column for the "pred" >> variable >> and to select the last column for the "ref" variable, ... Doubtless there are other routes. Generally I use ?length to get the

Re: [R] how to address last and all but last column in dataframe

2008-09-06 Thread David Winsemius
Not sure where your "input" came from. It's not in a format I would have expected of an R object and the first line is not in a form that would be particularly easy to read into a valid R object. Numbers are no legitimate object names. It's also not clear what you want to do with the duplic

[R] how to address last and all but last column in dataframe

2008-09-06 Thread drflxms
Dear R-colleagues, another question from a newbie: I am creating a lot of simple pivot-charts from my raw data using the reshape-package. In these charts we have medical doctors judging videos in the columns and the videos they judge in the rows. Simple example of chart/data.frame "input" with two