Re: [R] iterating over groups of columns

2010-06-09 Thread Greg Snow
rg] On Behalf Of 09wkj > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 4:32 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] iterating over groups of columns > > In the code fragment, I used 'by' to actually compute the min value > (part of the statement with the eval) - and I agree that an a

Re: [R] iterating over groups of columns

2010-06-09 Thread Jannis
a),'\\.'))[2] --- 09wkj schrieb am Di, 8.6.2010: > Von: 09wkj > Betreff: Re: [R] iterating over groups of columns > An: r-help@r-project.org > CC: "Jannis" > Datum: Dienstag, 8. Juni, 2010 22:32 Uhr > In the code fragment, I used 'by' to > actu

Re: [R] iterating over groups of columns

2010-06-08 Thread 09wkj
In the code fragment, I used 'by' to actually compute the min value (part of the statement with the eval) - and I agree that an apply would work there wonderfully. However, my hope was to use an apply for the subsetting of the data.frame's columns, so that I could then use an apply to compute

Re: [R] iterating over groups of columns

2010-06-08 Thread Jannis
you should have found a solution for that in the help page of apply. just run min.values = apply(the.data,1,min) the '1' marks the direction (e.g. whether apply is applied to rows or columns), it could be a 2 as well. Check that yourself in the apply documentation. Then run rbind(the.data,m

[R] iterating over groups of columns

2010-06-08 Thread 09wkj
I am mainly a Java/C++ programmer, so my mind is used to iterating over data with for loops. After a long break, I am trying to get back into the "R mindset", but I could not find a solution in the documentation for the applys, aggregate, or by. I have a data.frame where each row is an entry wi