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2008 Nov 13
1
Unflatten a table in R
...function or method to complete this task, (hopefully efficiently). My data table is full of historical stock-market data. Daily, each ticker-symbol has four data points: open, close, high, and low. Right now the table looks like the following. (Note, each ticker symbol has a unique numeric 'SymbolID'. SymbolID MarketDate Open Close High Low 1 4 11/3/2008 1.5790 1.5788 1.5790 1.5788 2 4 11/4/2008 1.5891 1.5892 1.5892 1.5891 3 4 11/5/2008 1.5937 1.5931 1.5937 1.5931 4 4 11/6/2008 1.5727 1.5727 1.5727 1.5727 5 4 11/7/2008 1.5673 1.5669...
2008 Dec 22
2
How can I avoid nested 'for' loops or quicken the process?
Hi All, I'm still pretty new to using R - and I was hoping I might be able to get some advice as to how to use 'apply' or a similar function instead of using nested for loops. Right now I have a script which uses nested for loops similar to this: i <- 1 for(a in Alpha) { for (b in Beta) { for (c in Gamma) { for (d in Delta) { for (e in Epsilon) { Output[i] <-