On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 1:26 AM, arun <smartpink111@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi Atem, If you change colnames(mat1)[-(2:3)] <- ' ' in 'lst1New' lst1New <- lapply(lst1,function(x) {lst2 <- setNames(lapply(x,function(y) {dat <- read.table(y,sep=" ",header=TRUE, stringsAsFactors=FALSE); dat[,1:104]} ), names1); dat2 <- do.call(cbind,lst2); indx <- grepl("Sim",names(dat2)); dat3 <- dat2[indx];dat4 <- dat2[!indx][,1:4]; names(dat4) <- gsub(".*\\.","",names(dat4)); lapply(split(names(dat3),gsub(".*\\.","",names(dat3))),function(x) {dat5 <- cbind(dat4,dat3[,x]); dat5$Tmean <- -999.9; dat6 <- dat5[,c(1:4,7:6,8,5)]; colnames(dat6)[2:3] <- format(Coord[match(unique(dat6$Site),Coord$Site),3:2],digits=4); dat7 <- dat6[,-4]; mat1 <- as.matrix(dat7); colnames(mat1)[-(2:3)] <- ' ';mat1})}) lst2New <- lapply(lst1New,function(x) {names(x) <- NULL; x}) head(lst2New[[1]][[1]],2) 49.53 -96.77 #[1,] 2000 1 1 -9.13 8.23 -999.9 0 #[2,] 2000 1 2 -9.51 0.39 -999.9 0 lapply(names(lst2New),function(x) {nm1 <- paste(x, names(lst1New[[x]]),sep="_"); nm2 <- paste0(paste(paste0(getwd(),"/final"),nm1,sep="/"),".csv");lapply(seq_along(lst1New[[x]]),function(i) {x1 <- lst2New[[x]][[i]]; write.table(x1, nm2[i],quote=FALSE,row.names=TRUE)})}) ##output file dat1 <- read.csv(paste(paste(getwd(),"final",sep="/"),"G100_Sim001.csv",sep="/"),header=TRUE,sep=" ",row.names=1)[1:3,1:7] mat1N <- as.matrix(dat1) colnames(mat1N) <- gsub("X\\.|X","",dimnames(mat1N)[[2]]) colnames(mat1N)[-(2:3)] <- " " mat1N # 49.53 96.77 #1 2000 1 1 -9.13 8.23 -999.9 0 #2 2000 1 2 -9.51 0.39 -999.9 0 #3 2000 1 3 -18.10 -5.67 -999.9 0 A.K. On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 1:06 AM, arun <smartpink111@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi Atem, I slightly modified: lst1New <- lapply(lst1,function(x) {lst2 <- setNames(lapply(x,function(y) {dat <- read.table(y,sep=" ",header=TRUE, stringsAsFactors=FALSE); dat[,1:104]} ), names1); dat2 <- do.call(cbind,lst2); indx <- grepl("Sim",names(dat2)); dat3 <- dat2[indx];dat4 <- dat2[!indx][,1:4]; names(dat4) <- gsub(".*\\.","",names(dat4)); lapply(split(names(dat3),gsub(".*\\.","",names(dat3))),function(x) {dat5 <- cbind(dat4,dat3[,x]); dat5$Tmean <- -999.9; dat6 <- dat5[,c(1:4,7:6,8,5)]; colnames(dat6)[2:3] <- format(Coord[match(unique(dat6$Site),Coord$Site),3:2],digits=4); dat7 <- dat6[,-4]; mat1 <- as.matrix(dat7); colnames(mat1)[-(2:3)] <- "Missval";mat1})}) head(lst1New[[1]][[1]],2) # Missval 49.53 -96.77 Missval Missval Missval Missval #[1,] 2000 1 1 -9.13 8.23 -999.9 0 #[2,] 2000 1 2 -9.51 0.39 -999.9 0 lst2New <- lapply(lst1New,function(x) {names(x) <- NULL; x}) lapply(names(lst2New),function(x) {nm1 <- paste(x, names(lst1New[[x]]),sep="_"); nm2 <- paste0(paste(paste0(getwd(),"/final"),nm1,sep="/"),".csv");lapply(seq_along(lst1New[[x]]),function(i) {x1 <- lst2New[[x]][[i]]; write.table(x1, nm2[i],quote=FALSE,row.names=F)})}) ##output file read.csv(paste(paste(getwd(),"final",sep="/"),"G100_Sim001.csv",sep="/"),header=TRUE,sep=" ",check.names=FALSE)[1:3,] #Missval 49.53 -96.77 Missval Missval Missval Missval #1 2000 1 1 -9.13 8.23 -999.9 0 #2 2000 1 2 -9.51 0.39 -999.9 0 #3 2000 1 3 -18.10 -5.67 -999.9 0 A.K. On Tuesday, April 8, 2014 9:28 PM, Zilefac Elvis <zilefacelvis@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi AK, Let's try to use characters other than NA and see what happens. I tried 'Missval' but the Lat and Long had Missval prefixed to it. How can I get rid of any characters in Lat and Long columns? Thanks, Atem. Hi AK, Thanks for the timely reply. "Lat" should be on the MONTH column while "Long" should be on the DAY column. I guess you did it this way. I will try the code once I get to school. Thanks again. Atem. ------ Original Message ------ From : arun>To : Zilefac Elvis; >Sent : 08-04-2014 04:44 >Subject : Re: Splitting columns and forming new data files in R > >Hi,The 'lat' and 'long' names you mentioned correspond to which columns in the "final" dataset? On Tuesday, April 8, 2014 1:17 AM, Zilefac Elvis wrote: Hi AK, Please I need your help. I finally solved the previous task I sent to you. I have Precip,Tmin and Tmax in three different folders (attached). Each folder has 4 files with identical names in all folders (we can match case). Within each file are [,YYY MM DD sim001...sim100] (some files may have more than 100 simulations. Use only the first 100). Q1) Open all three folders, go to file 1 (e.g G100), copy column 1 (sim001, do not copy date) and paste it in a new folder called "final". Do so for column 2 (sim002),...,column 100 (sim100). So from file 1 alone with 100 sims, you will have 100 files in "final". The files in "final" should be labelled for example as G100_sim001, G100_sim002,...,G100_sim100; G101_sim001,G101_sim002 etc. The format of all files in "final" is similar to: 50-110.7 196111-999.9-999.9-999.90 196112-999.9-999.9-999.92.38 196113-999.9-999.9-999.90 196114-999.9-999.9-999.90 196115-999.9-999.9-999.90 196116-999.9-999.9-999.90 196117-999.9-999.9-999.90 196118-999.9-999.9-999.90 196119-999.9-999.9-999.95.19 1961110-999.9-999.9-999.90 1961111-999.9-999.9-999.90 1961112-999.9-999.9-999.90 1961113-999.9-999.9-999.90 1961114-999.9-999.9-999.90 1961115-999.9-999.9-999.90 The columns after the date should be [Tmin,Tmax,Tmean,Precip]. Please do not include column names in output. Output files are .csv. *Fill column "Tmean" with -999.9 in all files. Therefore, using the sample I have provided, you will have 4sites*100 sims = 400 files in folder "final". Q2) From the attached coordinates file, please copy Lat andLong corresponding to the Site and past it in the first row of every file starting with that site code. For example, all files beginning with G100_sim... will have their first row similar to: 49.53-96.7 196111-999.9-999.9-999.90 This looks very cumbersome for me to handle. Thanks very much. Atem. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]