[R] applying complex functions by groups

[jim holtman]

can you  provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible
code.  Exactly what statements are you using.  Normally I would use
'split' to partition the data and then 'lapply' to work on each of the
groups.  An idea of what type of processing you have tried and what
your expectation of output (given a specific input) would be.

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Finch, W. Holmes <whfinch at bsu.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a matrix that is indexed by groups and looks something like this:
>
> 1 1 2
> 1 2 1
> .
> .
> .
> 2 1 1
> 2 1 2
> 2 NA 1
> .
> .
> .
> 3 1 NA
> 3 2 NA
> etc.
>
> The first column is the group variable and I would like to apply categorical data imputation functions to the other two columns, doing so by groups.  I have tried APPLY, BY and SPLIT, but have not had much luck getting it to work.  I wonder if anyone has suggestions for how I might do this kind of by groups processing.  Thanks very much.
>
> Holmes
>
>
> Holmes Finch
> Associate Professor
> Director of Research, Office of Charter School Research
> Department of Educational Psychology
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>
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>
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