[R] Table rearranging

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Wed Feb 8 03:51:55 CET 2012


On Feb 7, 2012, at 8:43 PM, Jeffrey Joh wrote:

>
> Hi David, I am not sure how ddply/summarize solves my issue.  I have  
> the following table:
>
> ID measurement date door color
> 1 0.93529385 513 open red
> 2 0.97419293 420 open red
> 3 0.962053514 513 closed red
> 4 0.963909937 1230 open blue
> 5 0.97652034 1230 open green
> 6 0.989310795 1230 closed blue
> 7 0.9941022 917 closed yellow
> 8 0.8945757 1230 open blue
>
> I only want to keep the lines that have corresponding open/closed  
> measurements.  For example, I want to keep lines 4,6,8 because for  
> the "1230 blue" condition, there exists both open and closed  
> measurements.
>
> However, the "513 red" condition has an open measurement, but no  
> closed measurement.

Huh? what about line 3?

-- 
David,
> Therefore, line 1 should be deleted.
>
> Jeffrey
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> CC: r-help at r-project.org; wdunlap at tibco.com
>> From: dwinsemius at comcast.net
>> To: johjeffrey at hotmail.com
>> Subject: Re: [R] Table rearranging
>> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 09:08:00 -0500
>>
>>
>> On Feb 7, 2012, at 4:21 AM, Jeffrey Joh wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for your help, Bill.
>>>
>>>> From the original table (not the plyr output), I would like to
>>>> remove all the lines that do not have a corresponding open/closed
>>>> measurement. For example, if there is a Closed yellow measurement
>>>> on 0917, but not an Open yellow 0917 measurement, then the Closed
>>>> yellow should be deleted.
>>>
>>> How can I make this change?
>>>
>>
>> In R you need to assign the results of a function to an object name  
>> so
>> you code would look like:
>>
>> modified_data <- ddply(d, .(date, color), summarize,
>> meanClosed=mean(measurement[door=="closed"]),
>> nClosed=sum(door=="closed"))
>>
>> --
>> David
>>> Jeffrey
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>>> From: wdunlap at tibco.com
>>>
>>>> To: johjeffrey at hotmail.com; r-help at r-project.org
>>>
>>>> Subject: RE: [R] Table rearranging
>>>
>>>> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:43:25 +0000
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>> Install and load the "plyr" package and try something like:
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>>> ddply(d, .(date, color), summarize,
>>>
>>>> + ddply(d, .(date, color), summarize
>>>
>>>> + meanClosed=mean(measurement[door=="closed"]),
>>>> nClosed=sum(door=="closed"))
>>>
>>>> date color meanOpen nOpen meanClosed nClosed
>>>
>>>> 1 420 red 0.9741929 1 NaN 0
>>>
>>>> 2 513 red 0.9352938 1 0.9620535 1
>>>
>>>> 3 917 yellow NaN 0 0.9941022 1
>>>
>>>> 4 1230 blue 0.9639099 1 0.9893108 1
>>>
>>>> 5 1230 green 0.9765203 1 NaN 0
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>> Bill Dunlap
>>>
>>>> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
>>>
>>>> wdunlap tibco.com
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>
>>>>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org
>>>>> ] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Joh
>>>
>>>>> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 4:28 PM
>>>
>>>>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>>>
>>>>> Subject: [R] Table rearranging
>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>>> I have a table that looks like this:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>>> measurement date door color
>>>
>>>>> 0.93529385 513 open red
>>>
>>>>> 0.97419293 420 open red
>>>
>>>>> 0.962053514 513 closed red
>>>
>>>>> 0.963909937 1230 open blue
>>>
>>>>> 0.97652034 1230 open green
>>>
>>>>> 0.989310795 1230 closed blue
>>>
>>>>> 0.9941022 917 closed yellow
>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>>> I would like to create a table that has: Open measurement, Closed
>>>>> measurement, date, color. For every
>>>
>>>>> date/color combination, there should be two columns to represent
>>>>> the door open/closed measurement.
>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>>> If there are multiple datapoints with a given door/date/color
>>>>> combination, then they should be
>>>
>>>>> averaged.
>>>
>>>>> I would also like to make two columns to represent the number of
>>>
>>>>> datapoints that were averaged in determining the open/closed
>>>
>>>>> measurements.
>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>>> Jeffrey
>>>
>>>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>> David Winsemius, MD
>> West Hartford, CT
>>
> 		 	   		

David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT



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