Hi, May be this helps:
lst1<-dlply(data,.(FileNo,ChannelNo),transform,filtered=applyfilter(ChannelB)) data2<-do.call(rbind,lapply(lst1,function(x){x$filtered<- as.numeric(x$filtered);x})) row.names(data2)<- row.names(data) head(data,3) # Time ChannelA ChannelB FileNo ChannelNo #1161 1.83214e-05 4.527559 6.873434 1 1 #1171 2.36814e-05 4.881890 13.602919 1 1 #1181 2.90414e-05 4.803150 21.092224 1 1 head(data2,3) # Time ChannelA ChannelB FileNo ChannelNo filtered #1161 1.83214e-05 4.527559 6.873434 1 1 NA #1171 2.36814e-05 4.881890 13.602919 1 1 NA #1181 2.90414e-05 4.803150 21.092224 1 1 17.04348 A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ingo Reinhold <in...@kth.se> To: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 9:17 AM Subject: [R] [plyr] Moving average filter with plyr Dear all, I'm stuck with a problem using plyr to process a rather large junk of data. What I'm trying to do is applying a moving average to all the subparts of the dataframe (the example data can be found here https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2414056/testData.Rdata). require(plyr) load("testData.Rdata") applyfilter<-function(x){ return(filter(x,rep(1/5, times=5))) } data.trash<-ddply(data, .(FileNo, ChannelNo), transform, filtered=applyfilter(ChannelB)) The result from this is Error in attributes(output[[var]]) <- attributes(value) : invalid time series parameters specified though the number of return values seems right to me. Do you have any thoughts or suggestions? Many thanks, Ingo [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.