[R] I bet apply has a solution

ROLL Josh F JRoll at lcog.org
Mon Feb 6 20:13:30 CET 2012


Ah.  That's the one.  Thank you.   

-----Original Message-----
From: Ista Zahn [mailto:istazahn at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 11:12 AM
To: ROLL Josh F
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] I bet apply has a solution

Hi Josh,

How about

apply(Data, 1, function(row) sd(row) == 0)

?

Best,
Ista



On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:34 PM, LCOG1 <jroll at lcog.org> wrote:
> Hi all
> For the data below, I would like to return a logical value indicating 
> differences in the data.
>
> #Create data
> Data..<-data.frame(a=rep(1,10),b=c(rep(1,9),2),c=c(rep(1,8),2,2))
>
>   a b c
> 1  1 1 1
> 2  1 1 1
> 3  1 1 1
> 4  1 1 1
> 5  1 1 1
> 6  1 1 1
> 7  1 1 1
> 8  1 1 1
> 9  1 1 2
> 10 1 2 2
>
>
> So what I want is to return logical value telling me if all the values 
> are the same.  So the result would be a b c DidChange
> 1  1 1 1     FALSE
> 2  1 1 1     FALSE
> 3  1 1 1     FALSE
> 4  1 1 1     FALSE
> 5  1 1 1     FALSE
> 6  1 1 1     FALSE
> 7  1 1 1     FALSE
> 8  1 1 1     FALSE
> 9  1 1 2      TRUE
> 10 1 2 2      TRUE
>
> I bet apply could handle this elegantly but that family of functions 
> is still not 100% intuitive to me.  Thoughts.  Thanks everyone
>
> Cheers,
>  Josh
>
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