[R] Extracting vectors from a matrix (err, I think) in RMySQL

[jim holtman]

try this:

> salaries
   yearID POS pct
1    2009  RF 203
2    2009  DH 200
3    2009  1B 198
4    2009  3B 180
5    2009  LF 169
6    2009  SS 156
7    2009  CF 148
8    2009  2B  97
9    2009   C  86
10   2008  DH 234
11   2008  1B 199
12   2008  RF 197
13   2008  3B 191
14   2008  SS 180
15   2008  CF 164
16   2008  LF 156
17   2008  2B 104
18   2008   C  98
> x <- split(salaries[c('yearID','pct')], salaries$POS)
> x
$`1B`
   yearID pct
3    2009 198
11   2008 199

$`2B`
   yearID pct
8    2009  97
17   2008 104

$`3B`
   yearID pct
4    2009 180
13   2008 191

$C
   yearID pct
9    2009  86
18   2008  98

$CF
   yearID pct
7    2009 148
15   2008 164

$DH
   yearID pct
2    2009 200
10   2008 234

$LF
   yearID pct
5    2009 169
16   2008 156

$RF
   yearID pct
1    2009 203
12   2008 197

$SS
   yearID pct
6    2009 156
14   2008 180

>


On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Wells Oliver <wells at submute.net> wrote:
> I have a query which returns a data set like so:
>
>> salaries
>   yearID POS pct
> 1    2009  RF 203
> 2    2009  DH 200
> 3    2009  1B 198
> 4    2009  3B 180
> 5    2009  LF 169
> 6    2009  SS 156
> 7    2009  CF 148
> 8    2009  2B  97
> 9    2009   C  86
> 10   2008  DH 234
> 11   2008  1B 199
> 12   2008  RF 197
> 13   2008  3B 191
> 14   2008  SS 180
> 15   2008  CF 164
> 16   2008  LF 156
> 17   2008  2B 104
> 18   2008   C  98
>
> I'd like to make a vector for all data for a given position, so for example
> here I'd like all yearID and pct for POS 'RF which should look like:
>
>   yearID pct
> 1 2009 203
> 2 2008 197
>
> Apologies if I'm mangling terminology here.
>
> --
> Wells Oliver
> wells at submute.net
>
>        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>



-- 
Jim Holtman
Cincinnati, OH
+1 513 646 9390

What is the problem that you are trying to solve?