[R] An apply and rep question

[Horace Tso]

Thanks Gabor, Andy, and Phil. I learn new trick, particularly the use of
gl().

H.

>>> "Gabor Grothendieck" <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> 8/11/2006 12:01 PM
>>>
The approach here is to perform the repetition on the indices (or
rownames)
rather than on the data frame directly.  Using the builtin data frame
BOD
any of the following would work:

BOD[gl(nrow(BOD), 2),]
BOD[rep(1:nrow(BOD), each = 2),]
BOD[rep(rownames(BOD), each = 2),]

On 8/11/06, Horace Tso <Horace.Tso at pgn.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm sure the explanation must be laughably simple to the experts out
> there, but I just could figure it out. I have a simple data frame
that
> looks like,
>
> >head(da.off)
>       DDate  OffP
> 1 2005-01-01 41.23
> 2 2005-01-02 44.86
> 3 2005-01-03 44.86
> 4 2005-01-04 43.01
> 5 2005-01-05 45.47
> 6 2005-01-06 48.62
>
> where the first column DDate currently is character, and OffP is
> numeric.
>
> I want to duplicate every row 2 times, so I thought I use apply(),
>
> x <- apply(da.off, 2, rep, each=2)
>
> The result is a matrix of all character,
>
>  head(x)
>  DDate        OffP
> 1 "2005-01-01" " 41.23"
> 1 "2005-01-01" " 41.23"
> 2 "2005-01-02" " 44.86"
> 2 "2005-01-02" " 44.86"
> 3 "2005-01-03" " 44.86"
> 3 "2005-01-03" " 44.86"
>
> To convert it back to numeric, I did
>
> x <- as.data.frame(x)
> x$OffP <- as.numeric(x$OffP)
>
> However, the OffP column didn't convert correctly, a mystery since
they
> "look" quite alright above. (I know, I know, there seems to be a
space
> there. But why?)
>
> head(x)
>         DDate OffP
> 1   2005-01-01  150
> 1.1 2005-01-01  150
> 2   2005-01-02  202
> 2.1 2005-01-02  202
> 3   2005-01-03  202
> 3.1 2005-01-03  202
>
> Is this the wrong way to use apply or rep?
>
> Horace
>
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