[R] dataset index

Lisa lisajca at gmail.com
Thu Dec 3 23:41:54 CET 2009


Thank you for your help. Your script works very well.

Lisa 



jholtman wrote:
> 
> Does this do what you want:
> 
>> x <- matrix(c(
> + 0, 0, 0,
> + 0, 0, 0,
> + 0, 1, 0,
> + 0, 1, 0,
> + 0, 1, 0,
> + 1, 2, 1,
> + 1, 2, 1,
> + 1, 3, 1,
> + 1, 3, 1,
> + 1, 3, 1),
> + ncol = 3, byrow = T,
> + dimnames = list(1:10, c("gender", "race", "disease")))
>> key <- apply(x, 1, paste, collapse=":")
>> m.flags <- lapply(unique(key), function(.indx){
> +     key == .indx
> + })
>> # create the keys
>> do.call(rbind, m.flags)
>          1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9    10
> [1,]  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
> [2,] FALSE FALSE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
> [3,] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE
> [4,] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE
>>
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Lisa <lisajca at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello, All,
>>
>> I have a dataset that looks like this:
>>
>> x <- matrix(c(
>> 0, 0, 0,
>> 0, 0, 0,
>> 0, 1, 0,
>> 0, 1, 0,
>> 0, 1, 0,
>> 1, 2, 1,
>> 1, 2, 1,
>> 1, 3, 1,
>> 1, 3, 1,
>> 1, 3, 1),
>> ncol = 5, byrow = T,
>> dimnames = list(1:10, c("gender", "race", "disease")))
>>
>> I want to write a function to produce several matrices including only
>> “TRUE”
>> and “FALSE” for the different levels of the variables (these matrices may
>> be
>> thought as index matrices), like
>>
>>> m1
>> TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
>>
>>> m2
>> FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
>>
>>> m3
>> FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE
>>
>>> m4
>> FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE
>>
>> Can anyone please help how to get this done? Your help would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Lisa
>>
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jim Holtman
> Cincinnati, OH
> +1 513 646 9390
> 
> What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
> 
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