R help - Feb 2006 - reshaping result of by()

Hello,

I'm trying to build a frequency table for a vector, broken down by the
combination of factors.  For further analyses, I need to have the result
arranged in a new data frame, with the upper limit of the histogram's
breaks, the per bin count, and the factors identifying each record.  My
problem is including the latter:

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toydf <- expand.grid(sample(0:50, 50, TRUE), c("A", "B"),
                     c("pop1", "pop2", "pop3",
"pop4", "pop5"))

"getFreq" <- function(x, bks)
{
  fhist <- hist(x, breaks = bks, plot = FALSE,
                include.lowest = TRUE)
  matrix(c(fhist$breaks[-1], fhist$counts),
           nrow = length(fhist$breaks[-1]), ncol = 2)
}

freqs <- by(toydf[[1]], list(toydf[[2]], toydf[[3]]), getFreq, bks = 0:50)

---<---------------cut here---------------end---------------->---

so I'd need to do some manipulation with dimnames(freqs), which contains
the levels of the factors supplied to 'getFreq', to assign the factors
to
each element of the matrix value of 'by'.  I could then do:

do.call(rbind, freqs)

to obtain the final data frame, which would then have all the necessary
information.

Any help with manipulation of the dimnames(freqs) (or something even
better) would be very appreciated!

Cheers,

-- 
Sebastian P. Luque

Is this what you want?
> x <- lapply(split(seq(nrow(toydf)), list(toydf[[2]], toydf[[3]])),
function(.indx){
+     .cnt <- getFreq(toydf[.indx,1], bks=0:50)
+     cbind(toydf[.indx, 2:3], .cnt)
+ })
> do.call('rbind', x)
           Var2 Var3  1 2
A.pop1.1      A pop1  1 2
A.pop1.2      A pop1  2 0
A.pop1.3      A pop1  3 1
A.pop1.4      A pop1  4 0
A.pop1.5      A pop1  5 1
A.pop1.6      A pop1  6 1
A.pop1.7      A pop1  7 0
A.pop1.8      A pop1  8 0
A.pop1.9      A pop1  9 2
A.pop1.10     A pop1 10 3
A.pop1.11     A pop1 11 0
A.pop1.12     A pop1 12 0
A.pop1.13     A pop1 13 2
A.pop1.14     A pop1 14 0
............



On 2/18/06, Sebastian Luque <spluque@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to build a frequency table for a vector, broken down by the
> combination of factors.  For further analyses, I need to have the result
> arranged in a new data frame, with the upper limit of the histogram's
> breaks, the per bin count, and the factors identifying each record.  My
> problem is including the latter:
>
> ---<---------------cut here---------------start-------------->---
>
> toydf <- expand.grid(sample(0:50, 50, TRUE), c("A",
"B"),
>                     c("pop1", "pop2", "pop3",
"pop4", "pop5"))
>
> "getFreq" <- function(x, bks)
> {
> fhist <- hist(x, breaks = bks, plot = FALSE,
>                include.lowest = TRUE)
> matrix(c(fhist$breaks[-1], fhist$counts),
>           nrow = length(fhist$breaks[-1]), ncol = 2)
> }
>
> freqs <- by(toydf[[1]], list(toydf[[2]], toydf[[3]]), getFreq, bks =
0:50)
>
> ---<---------------cut here---------------end---------------->---
>
> so I'd need to do some manipulation with dimnames(freqs), which
contains
> the levels of the factors supplied to 'getFreq', to assign the
factors to
> each element of the matrix value of 'by'.  I could then do:
>
> do.call(rbind, freqs)
>
> to obtain the final data frame, which would then have all the necessary
> information.
>
> Any help with manipulation of the dimnames(freqs) (or something even
> better) would be very appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Sebastian P. Luque
>
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