R help - Jul 2011 - iterative using values from a data frame to parameterize a function

Hello,

I'm just trying to wrap my head around the syntax for creating loops,
functions in R. I have an array of values from a .csv. Looks something like

header<-c(species,coefficient1, exponent1, coefficient2, exponent2,
constant)

with a species name for the first column, and values for coefficient1,
exponent1, coefficient2, exponent2, constant for each species.

The values are parameters for an equation

V<-((coefficient1*(x)^exponent1)+(coefficient2*(x)^exponent2)+constant)

x<1:100

I'd like to run the equation using the parameters for each species and the
vector x to simulate what V would be for the range of values x, and then
plot a graph of for each species.

Would the way to do this be some sort of apply nested within a for loop?
Code so far looks like

vol<-read.csv("frame.csv")

vol.exp<-function(coefficient1, exponent1, coefficient2, exponent2,
constant,x) {
V<-((coefficient1*(x)^exponent1)+(coefficient2*(x)^exponent2)+constant)
V
}
x<1:100

Thanks

*Ben *

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Or maybe that function should look more like

vol.exp<-function(x) {
V<-((coefficient1*(x)^exponent1)+(coefficient2*(x)^exponent2)+constant)
V
}

?
*Ben *



On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Benjamin Caldwell
<btcaldwell@berkeley.edu
> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm just trying to wrap my head around the syntax for creating loops,
> functions in R. I have an array of values from a .csv. Looks something like
>
> header<-c(species,coefficient1, exponent1, coefficient2, exponent2,
> constant)
>
> with a species name for the first column, and values for coefficient1,
> exponent1, coefficient2, exponent2, constant for each species.
>
> The values are parameters for an equation
>
> V<-((coefficient1*(x)^exponent1)+(coefficient2*(x)^exponent2)+constant)
>
> x<1:100
>
> I'd like to run the equation using the parameters for each species and
the
> vector x to simulate what V would be for the range of values x, and then
> plot a graph of for each species.
>
> Would the way to do this be some sort of apply nested within a for loop?
> Code so far looks like
>
> vol<-read.csv("frame.csv")
>
> vol.exp<-function(coefficient1, exponent1, coefficient2, exponent2,
> constant,x) {
> V<-((coefficient1*(x)^exponent1)+(coefficient2*(x)^exponent2)+constant)
> V
> }
> x<1:100
>
> Thanks
>
> *Ben *
>
>
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Hi:

Try this:

set.seed(266)
dfm <- data.frame(c1 = sample(1:5, 10, replace = TRUE),
                  e1 = sample(1:3, 10, replace = TRUE),
                  c2 = sample(1:5, 10, replace = TRUE),
                  e2 = sample(1:3, 10, replace = TRUE),
                  c3 = sample(1:5, 10, replace = TRUE),
                   x = 1:10)

f <- function(d) with(d, c1^e1 + c2 * x^e2 + c3)
f(dfm)
[1]  70   6 172  86  15 173 254 158  19 505

HTH,
Dennis

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Benjamin Caldwell
<btcaldwell at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm just trying to wrap my head around the syntax for creating loops,
> functions in R. I have an array of values from a .csv. Looks something like
>
> header<-c(species,coefficient1, exponent1, coefficient2, exponent2,
> constant)
>
> with a species name for the first column, and values for coefficient1,
> exponent1, coefficient2, exponent2, constant for each species.
>
> The values are parameters for an equation
>
> V<-((coefficient1*(x)^exponent1)+(coefficient2*(x)^exponent2)+constant)
>
> x<1:100
>
> I'd like to run the equation using the parameters for each species and
the
> vector x to simulate what V would be for the range of values x, and then
> plot a graph of for each species.
>
> Would the way to do this be some sort of apply nested within a for loop?
> Code so far looks like
>
> vol<-read.csv("frame.csv")
>
> vol.exp<-function(coefficient1, exponent1, coefficient2, exponent2,
> constant,x) {
> V<-((coefficient1*(x)^exponent1)+(coefficient2*(x)^exponent2)+constant)
> V
> }
> x<1:100
>
> Thanks
>
> *Ben *
>
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>
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