[R] Calculating Kendall's tau

[Bert Gunter]

This sounds like homework. Homework is discouraged on this list (but
you might get lucky).

Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Desta Yoseph via R-help
<r-help at r-project.org> wrote:
> I am analyzing trend  using Mann-kendall  test for 31 independent sample, each sample  have 34 years dataset.  I supposed to find Kendall “tau” for each sample. The data is arranged in column wise (I attached  the data).To find Kendall tau, I wrote R script as:
>      desta<-read.csv("rainfall.csv", header=T, sep=",")     require(Kendall)              MK<-function(y) {                 nc<-ncol(y)                 MannKendalltau<- numeric(nc)                 for(i in 2:nc){                          MannKendalltau[i]<-MannKendall(y[,i])           }            MannKendalltau    }    MK(desta)
> The  displayed result showed  both “tau”  and “2-sided p-value”in unorganized way.  But, I want only “tau” value that is presented in organized  manner. Anyone can tell me how can I get orderly displayed  “tau” value? here is my sample result:      [[1]][1] 0
> [[2]][1] 0.4352941attr(,"Csingle")[1] TRUE
> [[3]][1] 0.5462185attr(,"Csingle")[1] TRUE
> [[4]][1] 0.4218487attr(,"Csingle")[1] TRUE....Thank you for your guidance
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