[R] t-test for multiple variables

[Simon Anders]

Hi Henning,

Henning Wildhagen wrote:
> Given a dataframe of three columns, where col1 is of type factor, col 2 and 
> col3 are numeric and pairs of observations i would like to perform a paired 
> t-test for each level of col1.
> I would like to avoid specifying the levels of col1 manually because it 
> seems to me as being stupid, however, i did not figure out how to tell it R 
> in an function. I tried with tapply, but it did not work.

That's what 'tapply' is meant for. Try this:

tapply( 1:nrow(df), df$col1, function(r)
    t.test( df$col2[r], df$col3[r], paired=TRUE  ) )

Here, tapply calls the fucntion in the second line for each level of 
col1, always passing the row indices of the rows with this level as 
parameter 'r'.

HTH
   Simon