... my bad! -- I filed to read carefully. A base syntax version is:
dat <- data.frame (a=sample(1:5,10,rep=TRUE), b=sample(3:7,10,rep=TRUE), g = sample(7:9,10,rep=TRUE)) dev <- sample(1:3,10,rep=TRUE) sapply(dat,function(x) tapply(x,dev,function(x)sum(x==5,na.rm=TRUE))) a b g 1 2 0 0 2 1 3 0 3 2 1 0 I think, no matter what, that there are 2 loops here: An outer one by column and an inner one by device within each column. Being both old and lazy, I have found it easier and more natural to stick with the basic functional syntax of the "apply" family of functions rather than to learn an alternative database type syntax (and semantics). My applications were never so large that the possible execution inefficiency mattered. However, it certainly might for others. And of course, what is "natural" for me might not be for others. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certainly not wisdom." -- Clifford Stoll On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski > <dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I have a data frame: > > > > md <- data.frame(a = c(3,5,4,5,3,5), b = c(5,5,5,4,4,1), c = > c(1,3,4,3,5,5), > > device = c(1,1,2,2,3,3)) > > myvars = c("a", "b", "c") > > md[2,3] <- NA > > md[4,1] <- NA > > md > > > > I want to count number of 5s in each column - by device. I can do it > like this: > > > > library(dplyr) > > group_by(md, device) %>% > > summarise(counts.a = sum(a==5, na.rm = T), > > counts.b = sum(b==5, na.rm = T), > > counts.c = sum(c==5, na.rm = T)) > > > > However, in real life I'll have tons of variables (the length of > > 'myvars' can be very large) - so that I can't specify those counts.a, > > counts.b, etc. manually - dozens of times. > > > > Does dplyr allow to run the count of 5s on all 'myvars' columns at once? > > md %>% > group_by(device) %>% > summarise_each(funs(sum(. == 5, na.rm = TRUE))) > > Hadley > > -- > http://had.co.nz/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.