Hi Henrique, Thanks for your tip.
how can I map xx onto xy (where xy is a matrix I created). > > > xy Mike Carl Gene James Dough A 1 1 1 1 1 C 1 1 1 1 1 B 1 1 1 1 1 If I can map xx onto xy, I can have '1' without NAs. Thanks Srini --- Henrique Dallazuanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps in this case: > > noquote(with(xx, tapply(NES, list(Class, Name), > paste))) > > > On 12/03/2008, Srinivas Iyyer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Group, > > I have a data frame like the following: > > > > > > x <- c("Mike","A",0.01) > > x1 <- c("Carl","A",0.2) > > x2 <- c("Gene","C",0.3) > > x3 <- c("James","A",-0.3) > > x4 <- c("Dough","B",0) > > xx <- rbind(x,x1,x2,x3,x4) > > colnames(xx)<-c("Name","Class","NES") > > xx <-as.data.frame(xx) > > > > > xx > > Name Class NES > > x Mike A 0.01 > > x1 Carl A 0.2 > > x2 Gene C 0.3 > > x3 James A -0.3 > > x4 Dough B 0 > > > > > > Now I want to create a matrix with unique xx$Name > on > > columns and unique xx$Class as rows. I want to > fill > > my choice of values (in this case 1) if data > point not > > available. > > > > > > xy <- > > > matrix(1,length(unique(xx$Class)),length(unique(xx[,1]))) > > colnames(xy)<-unique(xx[,1]) > > rownames(xy)<-unique(xx$Class) > > > > > xy > > Mike Carl Gene James Dough > > A 1 1 1 1 1 > > C 1 1 1 1 1 > > B 1 1 1 1 1 > > > > > > > > > > > > I would love to have : > > > > Mike Carl Gene James Dough > > A 0.01 0.2 1 -0.3 1 > > C 1 1 1 0.3 1 > > B 1 1 1 1 0 > > > > > > > > > > If I am not wrong this is called contigency or > > frequeny table. > > > > I tried xtabs on this. > > > > > z <- xtabs(NES ~ Name+Class,data=xx) > > Error in Summary.factor(4L, na.rm = FALSE) : > > sum not meaningful for factors > > > > > > I tried on other data frames, it worked. BUT the > > problem is it gives me 0.0000 even a value is not > > available for that row and column. So if I have > data > > -0.00 it is considered 0. > > > > I tried. drop.unused.levels = T, I did not get > what I > > want. I want all row.col values not available to > be 1. > > > > > > Is there any other trick where I map by row and > column > > names instead of using advanced xtabs. > > > > thanks > > Srini > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > > -- > Henrique Dallazuanna > Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil > 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O > ______________________________________________ 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.