R help - Mar 2013 - issue creating a subset

I'm performing item response theory with eRm packages
I am excluding the persons that doesn't fit in the infit/outfit persons.
for that I created a condition. then I have to create a new subset or
matrix but with the condition.

So:

ORIGINAL

matrix<-cbind(item1, item2, item3, item4)

IF I PERFORM A head(matrix)

item1 item2 item3 item4
  3         2       3       1
  3         1       2       4

THEN I CREATE THE LOGIC CONDITION

z<-thing==T

THEN I TRY TO CREATE THE NEW MATRIX BUT WITH THE CONDITION

matrix2<-cbind(item1[z==T], item2[z==T], item3[z==T], item4[z==T])

THE ISSUE IS THAT IF I PERFORM A head(matrix2)

 I1        I2       I3      I4
  3         2       3       1
  3         1       2       4

The names of the columns change at all.

CAN ANYONE HELP ME TO KEEP THE SAME NAMES?

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On 03/01/2013 12:53 PM, Pablo Menese wrote:
> I'm performing item response theory with eRm packages
> I am excluding the persons that doesn't fit in the infit/outfit
persons.
> for that I created a condition. then I have to create a new subset or
> matrix but with the condition.
>
> So:
>
> ORIGINAL
>
> matrix<-cbind(item1, item2, item3, item4)
>
> IF I PERFORM A head(matrix)
>
> item1 item2 item3 item4
>    3         2       3       1
>    3         1       2       4
>
> THEN I CREATE THE LOGIC CONDITION
>
> z<-thing==T
>
> THEN I TRY TO CREATE THE NEW MATRIX BUT WITH THE CONDITION
>
> matrix2<-cbind(item1[z==T], item2[z==T], item3[z==T], item4[z==T])
>
> THE ISSUE IS THAT IF I PERFORM A head(matrix2)
>
>   I1        I2       I3      I4
>    3         2       3       1
>    3         1       2       4
>
> The names of the columns change at all.
>
> CAN ANYONE HELP ME TO KEEP THE SAME NAMES?
>
Hi Pablo,
If I understand what you are doing, you are "taking the scenic route".
Say you have a matrix of scores:

scoremat<-matrix(sample(1:4,40,TRUE),ncol=4)

and a vector specifying whether each person is in or out:

z<-sample(c(TRUE,FALSE),10,TRUE)

all you have to do is:

scoremat2<-scoremat2[z,]

Jim

What Jim said separately is correct, and I would suggest following his
advice.
But there are some points worth looking at in your method.

See this example:
> item1 <- item2 <- item3 <- item4 <- 1:4
> 
> matrix1<-cbind(item1, item2, item3, item4)
> 
> z <- c(TRUE,TRUE,FALSE,TRUE)
> 
> matrix2 <- cbind(item1[z], item2[z], item3[z], item4[z])
> 
> matrix3 <- cbind(item1=item1[z], item2=item2[z],
+                  item3=item3[z], item4=item4[z])
> 
> print(matrix1)
     item1 item2 item3 item4
[1,]     1     1     1     1
[2,]     2     2     2     2
[3,]     3     3     3     3
[4,]     4     4     4     4
> 
> print(matrix2)
     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,]    1    1    1    1
[2,]    2    2    2    2
[3,]    4    4    4    4
> 
> print(matrix3)
     item1 item2 item3 item4
[1,]     1     1     1     1
[2,]     2     2     2     2
[3,]     4     4     4     4

Points to consider:

Since your "z" is a vector of logical values, you don't need
   item1[z==T]
instead, use
   item1[z]
  
Your column names on matrix2 do not look correct, given how you created
matrix2.

Not that you can specify column names when you create the matrix using
cbind, as in my matrix3 example.

-Don 


-- 
Don MacQueen

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7000 East Ave., L-627
Livermore, CA 94550
925-423-1062





On 2/28/13 5:53 PM, "Pablo Menese" <pmenese at gmail.com> wrote:

I'm performing item response theory with eRm packages
I am excluding the persons that doesn't fit in the infit/outfit persons.
for that I created a condition. then I have to create a new subset or
matrix but with the condition.

So:

ORIGINAL

matrix<-cbind(item1, item2, item3, item4)

IF I PERFORM A head(matrix)

item1 item2 item3 item4
  3         2       3       1
  3         1       2       4

THEN I CREATE THE LOGIC CONDITION

z<-thing==T

THEN I TRY TO CREATE THE NEW MATRIX BUT WITH THE CONDITION

matrix2<-cbind(item1[z==T], item2[z==T], item3[z==T], item4[z==T])

THE ISSUE IS THAT IF I PERFORM A head(matrix2)

 I1        I2       I3      I4
  3         2       3       1
  3         1       2       4

The names of the columns change at all.

CAN ANYONE HELP ME TO KEEP THE SAME NAMES?

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