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harlow
2011 Jan 06
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weighed mean of a data frame row-by-row
Dear list,
This must be an easy one. I have a data frame like this one:
test.df <- data.frame(x1=c(2,3,5), x2=c(5, 3, 4), w=c(0.8, 0.3, 0.5))
and I want to construct a weighted mean of the first two columns using the
third column for weighting; i.e.
y[1] = x1[1]*w[1] + x2[1]*(1-w[1])
y[2] = ...
One way to do this is to use a loop like
test.df$y <-numeric(3)
with(test.df,
for(i in