[R] how to get the group mean deviation data ?

ronggui 0034058 at fudan.edu.cn
Mon Jul 25 08:07:50 CEST 2005


> n=10;t=3
> d<-cbind(id=rep(1:n,each=t),y=rnorm(n*t),x=rnorm(n*t),z=rnorm(n*t))
> head(d)
     id          y           x          z
[1,]  1 -2.1725379  0.07629954 -0.3985258
[2,]  1 -1.2383038 -2.49667038  0.6966127
[3,]  1 -1.2642401 -0.50613307  0.4895856
[4,]  2  0.2171246  0.86711864 -0.6660036
[5,]  2  2.2765760 -0.48547142 -1.4496664
[6,]  2  0.5985345 -1.06427035  2.1761071

first,i want to get the group mean of each variable,which i can use
> d<-data.frame(d)
> aggregate(d,list(d$id),mean)[,-1]
   id           y          x           z
1   1 -1.55836060 -0.9755013  0.26255754
2   2  1.03074502 -0.2275410  0.02014565
3   3  0.20700121 -0.7159450  1.35890176
4   4  0.17839650  1.2575891  0.04135165
5   5 -0.20012508  0.4310221  0.55458899
6   6 -0.13084185 -0.2953392  0.28229068
7   7  0.20737288 -0.8863761 -0.50793880
8   8  0.07512612 -0.6591304 -0.21656533
9   9  0.94727796 -0.6108891  0.13529884
10 10 -0.04434875  0.1332086 -0.88229808

then i want the  group mean deviation data,like
> head(sapply(d[,2:4],function(x) x-ave(x,d$id)))
              y          x          z
[1,] -0.6141773  1.0518008 -0.6610833
[2,]  0.3200568 -1.5211691  0.4340552
[3,]  0.2941205  0.4693682  0.2270281
[4,] -0.8136205  1.0946597 -0.6861493
[5,]  1.2458310 -0.2579304 -1.4698121
[6,] -0.4322105 -0.8367293  2.1559614

both above are what i want.though i can do it use the function  to do it.but if n id quite large,say n=1000 and t=3, it require too much time.so i want to know any more efficient way to do it?

myfun<-function(x,id)
 {
 x<-as.matrix(x)
 id<-as.factor(id)
 xm<- apply(x,2,function(y,z) tapply(y,z, mean), z=id)
 xdm<- x[] <- x-xm[id,]  
 re<-list(xm=xm, xdm=xdm)
 re
 }




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