On Dec 16, 2008, at 6:00 PM, glenn roberts wrote:
Another Newbie Question sorry:
I am trying to apply a function a dataframe and could use some help:
Assuming, dim(df) = (10,2) say, I would like to apply a function
that looks
at each row in turn and returns a list (dim =(10,1)) using the
columns as
inputs to the function, but with no INDEX stuff that the by() function
refers to.
For a simple function x+y I know in Mathematica it would be this;
Table[df[[i,1]]+ df[[i,2]],{i,1,10}]
Of if the function was defined is would read;
Table[f[df[[i,1]], df[[i,2]]],{i,1,10}]
I don't know Mathematica, but if you just want the sum by rows
?apply
When the second argument is 1 the rows are taken singly as arguments
to the third argument FUN:
> DF <- data.frame(col1 = 1:10, col2 = 11:20)
> apply(DF,1,sum)
[1] 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30
If you want minimums then the apply method with FUN=min would still
work:
> apply(DF,1,min)
[1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Thanks for help in advance
Glenn
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