On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, cmccar...@bmcc.cuny.edu wrote:
Hi,
Suppose I have the following data
name???? score
Abel??????? 88
Baker????? 54
Charlie??? 77
stored a? table called myData.
I want to write a function that will create a table which is a subset of myData
containing those have a score > 75.
I know I can do this with the following command:
subset(myData, score > 75)
But I would like to do this via a function, something like:
newTable <- function( data,? criteria){
??????????????????? subset( data, criteria) }
and then calling:???? newTable(myData, score > 75)
But this doesn't work. I am sure there is a simple way to do this,
but I am stuck! Please help. Thanks!
Simple? Maybe not so much!
You are trying to pass objects without evaluating them. subset is rather
special in the way it works. Here is one way:
foo <- function(x,...){
+ mc <- match.call()
+ mc[[1]] <- as.name("subset")
+ eval(mc)
+ }
foo(iris, Petal.Width>2.4 )
Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
101 6.3 3.3 6.0 2.5 virginica
110 7.2 3.6 6.1 2.5 virginica
145 6.7 3.3 5.7 2.5 virginica
Reading the code at the top of lm shows how this kind of strategy can be
used.
You might look at
?bquote
for another way to skin this cat.
HTH,
Chuck
Chris?McCarthy, PhD
Department?of?Mathematics?BMCC
Office:?N522???Extension:?5235
cmccar...@bmcc.cuny.edu
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Charles C. Berry Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine
cbe...@tajo.ucsd.edu UC San Diego
http://famprevmed.ucsd.edu/faculty/cberry/ La Jolla, San Diego 92093-0901
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