[R] Apply functions along "layers" of a data matrix

[Dennis Murphy]

Hi:

Here are two ways to do it; further solutions can be found in the doBy
and data.table packages, among others.

library('plyr')
ddply(daf, .(id), colwise(mean, c('v1', 'v2', 'v3', 'v4')))

aggregate(cbind(v1, v2, v3, v4) ~ id, data = daf, FUN = mean)

# Result of each:
  id v1 v2 v3 v4
1  1  6 21 36 51
2  2  7 22 37 52
3  3  8 23 38 53
4  4  9 24 39 54
5  5 10 25 40 55

Dennis

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:05 AM,  <saschaview at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> How can I apply functions along "layers" of a data matrix?
>
> Example:
>
> daf <- data.frame(
>  'id' = rep(1:5, 3),
>  matrix(1:60, nrow=15, dimnames=list( NULL, paste('v', 1:4, sep='') )),
>  rep = rep(1:3, each=5)
> )
>
> The data frame "daf" contains 3 repetitions/layers (rep) of 4 variables of 5
> persons (id). For some reason, I want to calculate various statistics (e.g.,
> mean, median) *along* the repetitions. The "mean" calculation, for example,
> would produce the means of daf[1, 'v1'] *along* the 3 repetition:
>
> (daf[1, 'v1'] + daf[6, 'v1'] + daf[11, 'v1']) / 3
>
> That is to say, each of the calculations would result in a data frame with 4
> variables (and the id) of the 5 persons:
>
>  id v1 v2 v3 v4
> 1  1  6 21 36 51
> 2  2  7 22 37 52
> 3  3  8 23 38 53
> 4  4  9 24 39 54
> 5  5 10 25 40 55
>
> Currently, I do this in a loop, but I was wondering about a quick and
> ressource-friendly way to achieve this?
>
> Thanks
> *S*
>
> --
> Sascha Vieweg, saschaview at gmail.com
>
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