On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Nick Manginelli <theman...@yahoo.com> wrote: > So I have to use this table of min, max, and mean temps for certain > years http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/classes/s133/data/january.tab. I am > supposed to figure out which year had the hottest January and which had the > coldest. But I dont know how to! > > Nick Manginelli
For starters I'd suggest pruning the data with grep, then you can pretty much eyeball the result. [m...@localhost lab1]$ grep " 1$" january.txt 45.5 50.67 62.1 2005 1 50.7 55.02 59.5 2006 1 43.9 53.23 65.7 2007 1 42.2 52.16 64.7 2008 1 46.6 51.93 59.9 2009 1 53 57.75 63.4 2010 1 Although you have to decide if you want to use the min, max, or mean temp to rank the years. If you use min for coldest its 2008, using mean it would be 2009. Also, if you are going to play with this data with R you probably want to change the headings because it will be confusing, (to you if not to R) to have column names that match R builtin commands. Maybe use minT meanT maxT year day I'm sure someone else here can help you with using R. I'm just learning R myself and also just about to go to sleep. Mike ______________________________________________ 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.
