Re: [R] Quantiles of a subset of data

2013-02-19 Thread Pete Brecknock
bradleyd wrote > Thanks Pete. The TRIM argument in the MEAN function tells me how to trim > off decimal points, but I am lost as to how to append the mean values of > TEMP and IBI between the 10% and 90% quantiles of DAY in each YEAR. > > DAY is the julian date that an event occurred in certain y

Re: [R] Quantiles of a subset of data

2013-02-19 Thread Pete Brecknock
bradleyd wrote > That does it, thanks. Do you think you help me a little bit further? > > I actually have 4 columns, YEAR, DAY, TEMP , and IBI. They are all > numeric. I need to calculate the average TEMP and IBI values between the > 10% and 90% quantiles for each YEAR. > > The code * > by(data

Re: [R] Quantiles of a subset of data

2013-02-19 Thread Pete Brecknock
bradleyd wrote > Thanks for your help Pete. I can almost get it to work with; > >> by(day,year,quantile) > > but this only gives me 0% 25% 50% 75% 100%, not the ones I'm looking > for, 10% and 90%. > > I have tried; > >> by(day,year,quantile(c(0.1, 0.9))) but this is rejected by > Error in

Re: [R] Quantiles of a subset of data

2013-02-19 Thread Pete Brecknock
bradleyd wrote > Excuse the request from an R novice! I have a data frame (DATA) that has > two numeric columns (YEAR and DAY) and 4000 rows. For each YEAR I need to > determine the 10% and 90% quantiles of DAY. I'm sure this is easy enough, > but I am a new to this. > >> quantile(DATA$DAY,c(0.1,