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Hi, I would like to extract columns from a dataframe using a vector of desired column names. The following working example uses the select argument in the subset function to accomplish what I am trying to do. Is there a better solution? Thanks. #my data data <- data.frame("col1"=c(1,2,3),"col2"=c("A","B","C"),"col3"=c(4,5,6))

Hi I want to extract columns from a data frame using a vector with the desired column names. This short example uses the select argument in the subset function to accomplish what I am trying to do. Is there a better solution? #names of desired columns colnames <- c("col1","col3") #my data data <-

> -----Original Message----- > From: William Dunlap > Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:16 AM > To: 'johannes_graumann at web.de' > Subject: Re: [R] Efficient passing through big data.frame and > modifying select fields > > > Johannes Graumann johannes_graumann at web.de > > Tue Nov 25 15:16:01 CET 2008 > > > > Hi all, > > > >

Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to find the index of the second occurrence of "/" in a string (which happens to represent a date) within a data frame column. I've used the following code successfully to find the first instance of "/". dframe <- data.frame(date=c("5/14/2011", "4/7/2011")) dframe$x1 <- regexpr("/", dframe[, 1])

Hi, I have a data frame with column names "1", "2", "3", ... and I'd like to extract a subset based on the values in the first column. None of the methods I tried worked (below). x <- subset(dframe, 1 = = "My Text") x <- subset(dframe, "1" = = "My Text") x <- subset(dframe, names(dframe)[1] = = "My Text") Q

Dear alltogether, I experience very strange behavior of imputation of NA's with the NORM library. I use R 2.2.0, win32. The code is below and the same dataset was also tried with MICE and aregImpute() from HMISC _without_ any problem. The problem is as follows: (1) using the whole dataset results in very strange imputations - values far beyond the maximum of the respective column, >

Hi, I've looked all over for a solution to this, but haven't had much look in specifying what I want to do with appropriate search terms. Thus I'm turning to R-help. In the process of trying to write a simple function to rename individual column names in a data frame, I ran into the following problem: When I rename the columns within my function, I can't seem to get it to

Hi! I suspect there must be an easy way to access components of a data frame by name, i.e. the input should look like "name1 name2 name3 ..." and the output be a data frame of those components with the corresponding names. I ´ve been trying for hours, but only found the long way to do it (which is not feasible, since I have lots of components to select):

Hi, I really feel I've looked everywhere, although I know this can't be a hard problem. I'd like to be able to call the graph below as a function, but I can't get the function to recognize variables beyond 'dframe'. I've read through many papers on writing functions in R, but I can't get this to work. data <- data.frame('date' = as.Date(rep(c(15101,

Hi, It seems that there's a bug in summary, in the max. output... but max() alone works fine. > hw04.dframe$area ... [41] 1790 1380 1296 2745 798 2306 438649 1481 1559 2450 ... > summary(hw04.dframe) area Min. : 798 1st Qu.: 1349 Median : 1690 Mean : 6962 3rd Qu.: 2306 Max. :438600 ### should read 438649 or, to the point,

Hello, I created a table in MySQL with this command CREATE TABLE example (pk INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,PRIMARY KEY(pk), id VARCHAR(30),col1 VARCHAR(30),col2 VARCHAR(30)) ### In R, I can connect to this table: library(DBI) library(RODBC) chan <- odbcConnect("MySQL51", uid="root", pwd="xxx") first <- sqlQuery(chan, "select * from example")

I frequently get data sets with cryptically-named variables. The datasets are more useful to me with informative variable names. I know that I can rename variables using the following command: dimname(dataset[[2]][index.of.variable.to.be.renamed]<-new.variable.name If I want to do this inside a function (say something I call RenameCol) what is the best way to communicate the

Dear R gurus, I have been struggling with this for a while and thought you might be able to give me some guidance. I have a data frame, on which I apply a row function. The result looks to me like a vector that retains the old row names. I then sort the vector and subsequently need to be able to identify the rank of certain values by searching for their row names. See this mock example: >

Hi, I am interested in implementing a special variant of balloonplot.  Let me explain with an example dataset from the reference manual : library(gplots) data(Titanic) dframe<-as.data.frame(Titanic) survived<-dframe[dframe$Survived=="Yes",] attach(survived) balloonplot(x=Class,y=list(Age,Sex),z=Freq,sort=TRUE,show.zeros=TRUE,cum.margins=FALSE,             main="BalloonPlot :

Dear all, I am studying a bit the various support functions that exist for extracting information from fitted model objects. From the help files it is not completely clear to me whether the number returned by nobs() should be the same as the "nobs" attribute of the object returned by logLik(). If so, then there is a slight inconsistency in the methods for 'nls' objects with

Hi all, The nobs method of (MASS:::polr class) takes into account of weight, but nobs method of glm does not. I wonder what is the rationale of such design behind nobs.glm. Thanks in advance. Best Regards. > library(MASS) > house.plr <- polr(Sat ~ Infl + Type + Cont, weights = Freq, data = housing) > house.logit <- glm(I(Sat=='High') ~ Infl + Type + Cont, binomial,weights

Hi! The nobs() method for glm objects always returns the number of cases with non-null weights in the data, which does not correspond to the number of observations for Poisson regression/log-linear models, i.e. when family="poisson" or family="quasipoisson". This sounds dangerous since nobs() is, as the documentation states, primarily aimed at computing the Bayesian

I've been trying to figure out how to accomplish the following... I've got a list (returned from a function) and I would like to "cbind()" the lists together to create a "cross tab" report or simply bind them together somehow the function returns a list that looks like the following: > all$BM $species [1] "BM" $vbar.nobs [1] 3 $vbar.sum [1] 54.05435

Hi, in R-3.0 I get the following error when calling lsfit with more observations than variables, which seems to come from an error in the formatting of the error message (note that this was not happening in 2.15.3): > nobs <- 5; nvar <- 6; lsfit(matrix(runif(nobs*nvar), ncol=nvar), runif(nobs), intercept=FALSE) Error in sprintf(ngettext(nry, "%d response", "%d

Greetings to r-help land. I've run into some program crashes and I've traced them back to methods() behavior after the package gdata is loaded. I provide now a minimal re-producible example. This seems bugish to me. How about you? dat <- data.frame(x = rnorm(100), y = rnorm(100)) lm1 <- lm(y ~ x, data = dat) methods(class = "lm") ## OK so far library(gdata)