[R] for loop, error in model frame.default ... variable lengths differ
Jeff Newmiller
jdnewmil at dcn.davis.CA.us
Mon May 21 09:56:47 CEST 2012
No data, not reproducible.
I think you should be using na.omit, though.
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Peter Keller <kellerp.l at gmail.com> wrote:
>I'm failing to get a for loop working. I'm sure it's something simple,
>and I
>have found some posts relating to it, but I'm just not understanding
>why
>this isn't working.
>
>I have a data frame and would like to loop through specific column
>names,
>using aggregate() within a for loop. There are NA's scattered
>throughout
>the data frame and I'm thinking it has something to do with that, but I
>haven't been able to fix it.
>
>vars <- colnames(df)[c(10,12,16,18,20,21,24:29,45)]
> for(i in 1:length(vars)) {
> aggregate(colnames(df)[i] ~ x1 + x2 + x3, df, mean,
>na.action=na.exclude)
> }
>
>I get this error:
>Error in model.frame.default(formula = colnames(df)[i] ~ x1 + x2 + :
> variable lengths differ (found for 'x1')
>
>There are probably much better ways to do this, and I would be happy to
>get
>suggestions, but mostly I would like to know why the code isn't
>working.
>
>Thanks-
>Peter
>
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