Dear all, thanks a lot for the quick help. Below is what I built with the hint of Nick.
Cheers, Marius library(plyr) set.seed(1) (df <- data.frame(Group=rep(c("Group1","Group2","Group3"), each=10), Value=c(rexp(10, 1), rexp(10, 4), rexp(10, 10)))[sample(1:30,30),]) edf <- function(x) ecdf(x)(x) ddply(df, .(Group), function(df.) cbind(df., edf=edf(df.$Value))) On 2011-08-17, at 13:38 , Hadley Wickham wrote: >> The following example does what you want using ddply: >> >> library(plyr) >> edfPerGroup = ddply(df, .(Group), summarise, edf = edf(Value), Value = >> Value) > > Or slightly more succinctly: > > ddply(df, .(Group), mutate, edf = edf(Value)) > > Hadley > > -- > Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair > Department of Statistics / Rice University > http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.