[R] convert a character string to a name

2013-05-23 Thread jpm miao
Hi, From time to time I need to do the aggregation. To illustrate, I present a toy example as below. In this example, the task is to aggregate x and y by z with the function mean. Could I call the aggregation function with x_test, where x_test=c(x,y)? Thanks Miao

Re: [R] convert a character string to a name

2013-05-23 Thread arun
: Thursday, May 23, 2013 3:05 AM Subject: [R] convert a character string to a name Hi,   From time to time I need to do the aggregation. To illustrate, I present a toy example as below. In this example, the task is to aggregate x and y by z with the function mean.   Could I call the aggregation

Re: [R] convert a character string to a name

2013-05-23 Thread Blaser Nello
-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of arun Sent: Donnerstag, 23. Mai 2013 09:19 To: jpm miao Cc: R help Subject: Re: [R] convert a character string to a name  with(dftest,aggregate(cbind(x,y),list(z),FUN=mean)) #  Group.1 x y #1   0 7 1 #2   1 6 2 #or library(plyr) ddply(dftest,.(z

Re: [R] convert a character string to a name

2013-05-23 Thread jim holtman
try this: dftest-data.frame(x=1:12, y=(1:12)%%4, z=(1:12)%%2) aggregate(cbind(x,y)~z, data=dftest, FUN=mean) z x y 1 0 7 1 2 1 6 2 x_test=c(x,y) a - formula(paste0('cbind(' + , x_test[1] + , ',' + , x_test[2] +

Re: [R] convert a character string to a name

2013-05-23 Thread arun
0 7 1 #2 1 6 2 A.K. - Original Message - From: Blaser Nello nbla...@ispm.unibe.ch To: arun smartpink...@yahoo.com; jpm miao miao...@gmail.com Cc: R help r-help@r-project.org Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 3:29 AM Subject: RE: [R] convert a character string to a name If you want to use

Re: [R] convert a character string to a name

2013-05-23 Thread Greg Snow
Here are a couple of approaches: dftest-data.frame(x=1:12, y=(1:12)%%4, z=(1:12)%%2) x_test=c(x,y) aggregate( dftest[,x_test], dftest['z'], FUN=mean ) z x y 1 0 7 1 2 1 6 2 ### Or tmp.f - as.formula( paste( 'cbind(', + paste( x_test, collapse=',' ), + ') ~ z' ) ) aggregate( tmp.f,