[R] Merging two columns of unequal length

[Mark Sharp]

I did not look at the code, but note the following.

By definition,
1. You cannot highlight code in plan text, which is the format accepted by r-help.
2. You cannot have columns of different lengths in a dataframe.


R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D.
msharp at TxBiomed.org





> On Dec 12, 2016, at 5:41 PM, Bailey Hewitt <bailster at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear R Help,
>
>
> I am trying to put together two columns of unequal length in a data frame. Unfortunately, so far I have been unsuccessful in the functions I have tried (such as cbind). The code I am currently using is : (I have highlighted the code that is not working)
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> y<- mydata[,2:75]
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> year <- mydata$Year
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> res <- data.frame()
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> for (i in 1:74){
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>  y.val <- y[,i]
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>  lake.lm= lm(y.val ~ year)
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>  lake.res=residuals(lake.lm)
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>  new.res <- data.frame(lake.res=lake.res)
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>  colnames(new.res) <- colnames(y)[i]
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> #cbind doesn't work because of the unequal lengths of my data columns
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>  res <- cbind(res, new.res)
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>  print(res)
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> }
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>
> mydata is a csv file with "Year" from 1950 on as my first column and then each proceeding column has a lake name and a day of year (single number) in each row.
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>
> Please let me know if there is any more information I can provide as I am new to emailing in this list. Thank you for your time!
>
>
> Bailey Hewitt
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