R help - Jan 2013 - tapply and functions with more than one objects

Hello,

How i can use a costum function in tapply which has more than one variable?

I mean sum(x) only needs one object but what when i have a function
function(x,y) with more, how i indicate where are the other variables
to use?7


I hope someone can help me. Thank you!!

Best regards,

Dominic

On Jan 22, 2013, at 2:24 PM, Dominic Roye wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> How i can use a costum function in tapply which has more than one variable?
> 
> I mean sum(x) only needs one object but what when i have a function
> function(x,y) with more, how i indicate where are the other variables
> to use?7
You can use:

lapply(split( multi_col_object, category_vec) , function(x,y){sum(x,y)}  ) 

aggregate(dat, category, FUN=sum)

Or:

do.call(rbind, by( multi_col_object, category_vec, function(x,y){ ....} )

Sometimes `Reduce` is more compact. Other times `mapply` is needed.
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA