R help - Dec 2009 - iterating over a data frame the R way?

Hi,

I have a data frame that was create by issuing a select against my  
sqlite database.  I want to get each row from the data frame and use  
the each of the column values.  The data frame looks like this:

start_time    end_time
09:30:00      10:00:00
10:00:01      10:30:00
etc

Can a point me to a tutorial/example of doing this?  I the other  
programming languages I'm familiar with I would just loop over the  
frame and access the elements, but I believe that's not the R way and  
can't find examples of doing this.

Thanks!

Uh what do you want to do to it/them?

Here are a couple of R-type commands on a data.frame.

mydata  <- data.frame(vec1 =  seq(19,109, by=10),
vec2 =seq(30,120, by=10))

mydata[,1]+mydata[,2]  
apply(mydata, 2, mean)



--- On Thu, 12/31/09, donahchoo at me.com <donahchoo at me.com> wrote:
> From: donahchoo at me.com <donahchoo at me.com>
> Subject: [R] iterating over a data frame the R way?
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Received: Thursday, December 31, 2009, 2:44 PM
> Hi,
> 
> I have a data frame that was create by issuing a select
> against my sqlite database.? I want to get each row
> from the data frame and use the each of the column
> values.? The data frame looks like this:
> 
> start_time? ? end_time
> 09:30:00? ? ? 10:00:00
> 10:00:01? ? ? 10:30:00
> etc
> 
> Can a point me to a tutorial/example of doing this?? I
> the other programming languages I'm familiar with I would
> just loop over the frame and access the elements, but I
> believe that's not the R way and can't find examples of
> doing this.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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