Hi David, I was thinking something like this:
ID Disease 1 A 2 B 3 A 1 C 2 D 5 A 4 B 3 D 2 A .. .. How can this be done? On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:34 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Jun 24, 2014, at 10:14 PM, Abhinaba Roy wrote: > > > Dear R helpers, > > > > I want to generate data for say 1000 patients (i.e., 1000 unique IDs) > > having suffered from various diseases in the past (say diseases > > A,B,C,D,E,F). The only condition imposed is that each patient should've > > suffered from *atleast* two diseases. So my data frame will have two > > columns 'ID' and 'Disease'. > > > > I want to do a basket analysis with this data, where ID will be the > > identifier and we will establish rules based on the 'Disease' column. > > > > How can I generate this type of data in R? > > > > Perhaps something along these lines for 20 cases: > > > data.frame(patient=1:20, disease = sapply(pmin(2+rpois(20, 2), 6), > function(n) paste0( sample( c('A','B','C','D','E','F'), n), collapse="+" ) ) > + ) > patient disease > 1 1 F+D > 2 2 F+A+D+E > 3 3 F+D+C+E > 4 4 B+D+C+A > 5 5 D+A+F+C > 6 6 E+A+D > 7 7 E+F+B+C+A+D > 8 8 A+B+C+D+E > 9 9 B+E+C+F > 10 10 C+A > 11 11 B+A+D+E+C+F > 12 12 B+C > 13 13 A+D+B+E > 14 14 D+C+E+F+B+A > 15 15 C+F+D+E+A > 16 16 A+C+B > 17 17 C+D+B+E > 18 18 A+B > 19 19 C+B+D+E+F > 20 20 D+C+F > > > -- > > Regards > > Abhinaba Roy > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > You should read the Posting Guide and learn to post in HTML. > > > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > -- > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > > -- Regards Abhinaba Roy Statistician Radix Analytics Pvt. Ltd Ahmedabad [[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.