[R] Please delete my e-mail judit.barroso at montana.edu

[Uwe Ligges]

On 12.12.2011 23:24, Barroso, Judit wrote:
> Please,
> I am receiving lot of e-mails that I do not want.
> Please could you delete my e-mail.

I think most of us will delete it. If you want to unsubscribe, please 
read the footer of any message, it tells you where you can unsubscribe 
yourself.

Uwe Ligges

>
> Thank,
> Judit
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Adams
> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 3:22 PM
> To: Bert Gunter
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Boxplot of multiple vectors with different lengths
>
> Bert,
>
> I may be mistaken, but I thought Ryan wrote "write code that automatically *imports
> data* from different files (with different lengths-just one variable)", so, I was referring to doing something with the data before it gets into R. I understand that one should not need to write out data and then re-read it in some way. As I said, those more experienced with R will probably offer better ideas.
>
> Tom
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Bert Gunter<gunter.berton at gene.com>  wrote:
>
>> Sorry -- previous versiuon prematurely sent. Full version is:
>>
>>   Yikes!  You should never have to do this sort of thing (writing stuff
>> out to files, etc.)
>>
>>   What is wanted, I believe, is ?do.call as in
>>
>>   do.call(boxplot, z)
>>
>>   where z is list(a,b,c)   as Sarah described.
>>
>>   However, I think you might do even better in terms of controlling
>> options, labels, etc. if you would get the data into standard flat
>> file format (data frame) as
>>
>> Result     Source
>>   1            a
>>   3           b
>> 2             b
>>   5         c
>> ... etc.
>>
>> (This is easy to do in R and via many packages.) and then use he
>> formula interface in the lattice ?bwplot  function for th eplot.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bert
>>
>>>
>>> result
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Thomas Adams
>>> <thomas.adams at noaa.gov>
>> wrote:
>>>> Ryan,
>>>>
>>>> I think you could do what you want by having the vector data
>>>> written to separate files; then create a file containing the
>>>> individual file
>> names. In
>>>> R, read the file containing the list of file names and loop through
>>>> this reading in the individual vector files. Maybe this is an
>>>> inelegant,
>> brute
>>>> force approach, but it has worked for me with essentially the same
>> problem.
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Ryan Utz<utz.ryan at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm attempting to write a code that automatically imports data
>>>>> from different files (with different lengths-just one variable)
>>>>> and makes
>> tidy
>>>>> box plots for comparison. I can successfully import the data and
>> create a
>>>>> list of the vectors I want to compare. But I cannot, for the life
>>>>> of
>> me,
>>>>> figure out how to generate box plots using the "list" option.
>>>>> Suppose
>> these
>>>>> are my data:
>>>>>
>>>>> a<-c(1,1,1,1,2,3,2,1,2,3)
>>>>> b<-c(2,2,2,3,4,4,4,3,3)
>>>>> c<-c(4,3,3,2,3,4,5,3,3,3,4,4,5,6,3,2)
>>>>>
>>>>> And this is my list of the vectors I'm interested in:
>>>>>
>>>>>   z<-list(c("a","b","c"))
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, this successfully generates the kind of boxplot I want:
>>>>>
>>>>> boxplot(a,b,c)
>>>>>
>>>>> But this does not:
>>>>>
>>>>> boxplot(z)
>>>>>
>>>>> Because I'm trying to write an automatic plot-generator as the
>>>>> amount
>> of
>>>>> data I'm working with will typically vary, I need to write this to
>> handle
>>>>> any number of data vectors.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've tried every imaginable means of tweaking the name of "z",
>>>>> with
>> zero
>>>>> success. And I've scoured the help pages for about 45 minutes
>>>>> (just to preempt any "read the help" responses). Please help!
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Ryan
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Bert Gunter
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>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Bert Gunter
>> Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
>>
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