I'm trying to get a new dataframe or whatever to call, which has the same structure with each file as listed above. For each cell in the new dataframe or the new file, it is the average value from former dataframes at the same location. Thanks.
On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Doran, Harold <hdo...@air.org> wrote: > Are you trying to take the mean over all cells, or over rows/columns > within each dataframe. Also, are these different dataframes stored within a > list or are they standalone? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of lily li > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2017 10:39 AM > To: R mailing list <r-help@r-project.org> > Subject: [R] About calculating average values from several matrices > > Hi R users, > > I have a question about manipulating the data. > For example, there are several such data frames or matrices, and I want to > calculate the average value from all the data frames or matrices. How to do > it? Also, should I convert them to data frame or matrix first? Right now, > when I use typeof() function, each one is a list. > > file1 > jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov > > app1 1.1 1.2 0.8 0.9 1.3 1.5 2.2 3.2 3.0 1.2 1.1 > app2 3.1 3.2 2.8 2.5 2.3 2.5 3.2 3.0 2.9 1.8 1.8 > app3 5.1 5.2 3.8 4.9 5.3 5.5 5.2 4.2 5.0 4.2 4.1 > > file2 > jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov > > app1 1.9 1.5 0.5 0.9 1.2 1.8 2.5 3.7 3.2 1.5 1.6 > app2 3.5 3.7 2.3 2.2 2.5 2.0 3.6 3.2 2.8 1.2 1.4 > app3 5.5 5.0 3.5 4.4 5.4 5.6 5.3 4.4 5.2 4.3 4.2 > > file3 has the similar structure and values... > > There are eight such files, and when I use the function mean(file1, file2, > file3, ..., file8), it returns the error below. Thanks for your help. > > Warning message: > In mean.default(file1, file2, file3, file4, file5, file6, file7, : > argument is not numeric or logical: returning NA > > [[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. > [[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.
