[R] correlations between columns for each row

[Rob Griffin]

Error in cor(x[a], x[b], use = "complete.obs") : 'x' must be numeric

This is strange, it works on your example (and you've understood what I'm 
trying to do perfectly), but then when I use it on the original data it 
comes up with the error above
I've checked str() and the columns are all numeric

???

-----Original Message----- 
From: Joshua Wiley
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 7:14 PM
To: robgriffin247
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] correlations between columns for each row

Hi Rob,

Here is one approach:


## define a function that does the calculations
## (the covariance of two vectors divided by the square root of
## the products of their variances is just a correlation)
rF <- function(x, a, b) cor(x[a], x[b], use = "complete.obs")

set.seed(1)
bigdata <- matrix(rnorm(271 * 13890), ncol = 271)

results <- apply(bigdata, 1, FUN = rF, a = 174:213, b = 214:253)

## combine
bigdata <- cbind(bigdata, iecorr = results)

Hope this helps,

Josh

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:42 AM, robgriffin247
<robgriffin247 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Just as an update on this problem:
> I have managed to get the variance for the selected columns
>
> Now all I need is the covariance between these 2 selections -
> the two target columns are and the aim is that a new column contain a
> covariance value between these on each row:
>
> maindata[,c(174:213)] and maindata[,c(214:253]
>
> I've played around with all sorts of apply (and derivatives of apply) and 
> in
> various different setups so I think I'm close but I feel like I'm chasing 
> my
> tail here!
>
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Joshua Wiley
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