R help - Sep 2006 - Running wilcox.test function on two lists

Dear all,
I'm a newbie to R and I would really apperciate any help with the following:

I have two lists, l1 and l2:

l1:
$"A*0101"
[1] 0.076 0.109 0.155  0.077 0.09 0  0  0.073
[9] 0.33  0.0034 0.0053


$"A*0247"
[1] 0 0 0.5 .004 0 0 0

$"A*0248"
[1] 0 0 0.3 0 0.06

....

l2:

$"A*1101"
[1] 0.17  0.24  0.097  0.075  0.067

$"A*0247"
numeric(0)

$"A*0248"
[1] 0.031

....

Basically, what I want to do is run wilcox.test() on each entry pair
in the list.

1) I want to loop through the list to run wilcox.test for each entry
of the list. How would I do that? mapply()?

          wilcox.test(l0[[1]],l1[[1]]) for the first one and so on....

2) I want to exclude the list entry which has no values (i.e. A*0247).

3) Finally, I only want the to see the 'p-value' for each list names.
The output I want capture is only the 'p-value' object from
wilcox.test.

        name    p-value
       A*0101  0.8329
        ....       ....

I'm grateful for any help, or any pointers to a good online tutorial.

Thanks a lot in advance,

-T.

try something like the following:

lis1 <- c(lapply(1:10, rnorm, n = 10))
lis2 <- c(lapply(1:10, rnorm, n = 10))
lis1[[5]] <- lis2[[8]] <- numeric(0)
############################################
ind <- sapply(lis1, length) > 0 & sapply(lis2, length) > 0
lis1 <- lis1[ind]
lis2 <- lis2[ind]

mapply(function(x, y) wilcox.test(x, y)$p.value, lis1, lis2)


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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Catholic University of Leuven

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Quoting "Raj, Towfique" <trajnp at gmail.com>:
> Dear all,
> I'm a newbie to R and I would really apperciate any help with the
following:
>
> I have two lists, l1 and l2:
>
> l1:
> $"A*0101"
> [1] 0.076 0.109 0.155  0.077 0.09 0  0  0.073
> [9] 0.33  0.0034 0.0053
>
>
> $"A*0247"
> [1] 0 0 0.5 .004 0 0 0
>
> $"A*0248"
> [1] 0 0 0.3 0 0.06
>
> ....
>
> l2:
>
> $"A*1101"
> [1] 0.17  0.24  0.097  0.075  0.067
>
> $"A*0247"
> numeric(0)
>
> $"A*0248"
> [1] 0.031
>
> ....
>
> Basically, what I want to do is run wilcox.test() on each entry pair
> in the list.
>
> 1) I want to loop through the list to run wilcox.test for each entry
> of the list. How would I do that? mapply()?
>
>           wilcox.test(l0[[1]],l1[[1]]) for the first one and so on....
>
> 2) I want to exclude the list entry which has no values (i.e. A*0247).
>
> 3) Finally, I only want the to see the 'p-value' for each list
names.
> The output I want capture is only the 'p-value' object from
> wilcox.test.
>
>         name    p-value
>        A*0101  0.8329
>         ....       ....
>
> I'm grateful for any help, or any pointers to a good online tutorial.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
>
> -T.
>
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