[R] Indexing from two variables

[Sarah Goslee]

That's kind of hard to follow without example data, but have
you looked at merge() ?

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Ross Dunne <DUNNER6 at tcd.ie> wrote:
> Hello, thank you all for your patience and time
>
> I am essentially trying to get disorganised data into long form for linear modelling.
>
> I have 2 dataframes "rec" and "book"
>
> Each row in "book" needs to be pasted onto the end of several of the rows of "rec" according to two variables in the row:" MRN" and "COURSE" which match.
>
> I have tried the following and variations thereon to no avail:
>
> </code>
> #for each line of the recovery dataframe
> #insert the one line of the "book" dataset that corresponds to the MRN AND the course-of-treatment (COURSE)
>
> #get the mrn and course from the first line of the recovery dataframe (rec)
>
> i=1
> newlist=list()
> colnames(newlist)=colnames(book)
> for ( i in 1:dim(rec)[1]) {
>
>        mrn=as.numeric(as.vector(rec$MRN[i]));
>        course=as.character(rec$COURSE[i]);
>
> ## find the corresponding row in the book dataframe
> ## by generating a logical vector and using
> ## it to access "book"
>
> get.vector<-as.vector(((as.numeric(as.vector(book$MRN))==mrn) & (as.character(book$COURSE)==course)))
>
> #gives you a vector of logicals (works)
>
> newlist[i]<-book[get.vector,]  ### (doesn't work)
>
> i=i+1;
> }
> </code>
>
> If anyone has any suggestions on
>
> 1)getting this to work
> 2) making it more elegant (or perhaps just less clumsy)
>
> If I have been unclear in any way I beg your pardons.
>
> I do understand I haven't combined any data above, I think if I can generate a long-format dataframe I can combine them all on my own
>
> Ross Dunne
> MB MRCPsych
> ross.dunne at tcd.ie
>
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