Dear R users, I am completelly lost with the following: I have the following vectors a, b ,c, d and e + a [1] 279.3413 268.0450 266.3062 433.8438 305.4650 317.4712 288.3413 374.6950 > > b [1] 170.4500 254.5675 219.5762 232.3425 200.2738 238.2637 210.6062 262.4825 345.2387 269.3763 [11] 190.1225 259.7750 241.1350 265.8775 175.4162 206.4238 202.1738 151.1550 213.9900 225.5825 > c [1] 278.6150 356.7738 426.5113 444.9538 335.2850 354.1463 526.6487 476.7912 503.7763 614.5300 [11] 504.4400 367.5537 485.6862 497.9550 > d [1] 476.6212 525.3800 405.4200 372.8800 > e [1] 428.4762 383.6587 184.6238 343.4737 306.7475 364.2300 441.0150 428.0275 389.0713 285.2125 [11] 396.0612 403.4787 375.4900 416.3575 543.3388 454.2475 430.1313
and I want to compare them in pair for significance with a t-test, so I wrote 2 for loops one inside the other, so that the variable of the for loop each of the for loop would be one of my vectors at a time, I wrote it like this #Test for normality shapiro.test(y) #Get the variables accessible. shapiro.test(y)->out attach(out) p.value #Perform a normal T-test if data is normal and a non-parametric one when the data are not normaly distributed for (r in expression(a,b,c,d,e)) { { if (p.value>0.05) { print(y) print("T-Test_normal") print(paste("Today is", date())) print(t.test(y,r,alternative="greater")) } else { print("T-Test_wilcoxon") print(paste("Today is", date())) print(wilcox.test(y,r,alternative="greater")) } } } } But somehow it doesnt work,because it considers a,b,c,d,e as strings and not as the vectors I have defined, and I have no idea how to make a for loop in which it loops takes a variable. Can anyone help me? I am lost Thank you! Lucia [[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.