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2006 Mar 07
2
(newbie) Accessing the pieces of a 'by' object
...ecuase of the need to pass weighted.mean a weights vector. I tried the by() function, but now I don't know how to coerce the returned object into a matrix so that I can reshape it. > fvs_weighted.mean <- function(y) weighted.mean(y$F3MRet, y$IndexWeight, na.rm=T); > tmp_byRet <- by(dfReturns, list(dfReturns$Quarter,dfReturns$Year,dfReturns$Ranking), fvs_weighted.mean); And various other ways to get the tmp_byRet object into a matrix were tried, eg. unlist(), a loop like this: dfRet <- data.frame(tmp_byRet); for(i in 1:dim(dfRet)[2]){ dfRet[ ,i] <- as.vector(...
2010 Dec 06
3
[plyr] Question regarding ddply: use of .(as.name(varname)) and varname in ddply function
...9L, 1760L), class = "data.frame") ----------- If some one doesn't want to open github - here is the code ## Doesn't work # grp -- name of a column of the the data.frame df # function call is -- getMinMax1( df1 , grp = "var1") getMinMax1 <-function(df, grp){ dfret <- ddply( df , .(as.name(grp)), ## I am using as.name(grp), source of error function(x){ minmax <- c(mix(x[ , 3]), max(x[ ,3])) return(minmax) } ) return(dfret) } ## Works fine # grp -- name of a column of the the da...
2006 Mar 08
0
survival
...ecuase of the need to pass weighted.mean a weights vector. I tried the by() function, but now I don't know how to coerce the returned object into a matrix so that I can reshape it. > fvs_weighted.mean <- function(y) weighted.mean(y$F3MRet, y$IndexWeight, na.rm=T); > tmp_byRet <- by(dfReturns, list(dfReturns$Quarter,dfReturns$Year,dfReturns$Ranking), fvs_weighted.mean); And various other ways to get the tmp_byRet object into a matrix were tried, eg. unlist(), a loop like this: dfRet <- data.frame(tmp_byRet); for(i in 1:dim(dfRet)[2]){ dfRet[ ,i] <- as.vector(...