[R] How create columns for squared values from previous columns?

[Mike C]

Ah, that works! Thank you!

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From: PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>
Sent: Tuesday, May 2, 2017 7:56:33 AM
To: C W; r-help
Subject: RE: [R] How create columns for squared values from previous columns?

Hi

you can use data.frame
data.frame(dat, dat[,1:3]^2)

and you can set names afterwards by names function.

Cheers
Petr


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> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of C W
> Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2017 3:22 AM
> To: r-help <r-help at r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [R] How create columns for squared values from previous
> columns?
>
> I came up with this solution,
>
> > cbind(dat, dat[, 1:3]^2)
>            X1         X2         X3         X4          X5          X1
>     X2        X3
> 1  0.72776481 -1.1332612 -1.9857503 0.46189400 -0.09016379 0.529641625
> 1.28428102 3.9432044
> 2  0.05126592  0.2858707  0.9075806 1.27582713 -0.49438507 0.002628194
> 0.08172203 0.8237026
> 3 -0.40430146  0.5457195 -1.1924042 0.15025594  1.99710475 0.163459669
> 0.29780978 1.4218277
> 4  1.40746971 -1.2279416  0.3296075 0.84411774 -0.52371619 1.980970990
> 1.50784058 0.1086411
> 5 -0.53841150  0.4750082 -0.4705148 0.05591914 -0.31503500 0.289886944
> 0.22563275 0.2213842
> 6  0.90691210  0.7247171  0.8244184 0.73328097 -1.05284737 0.822489552
> 0.52521494 0.6796657
>
> But, you would NOT ONLY get undesired variable names, BUT ALSO
> duplicated names. I suppose I can use paste() to solve that?
>
> Any better ideas?
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 8:57 PM, C W <tmrsg11 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear R list,
> >
> > I am am a little unsure what is the best way to approach this. I
> > suppose I have
> >
> > > dat <- matrix(rnorm(30), ncol = 5)
> > > dat <- data.frame(dat)
> > > dat
> >            X1          X2          X3         X4          X5
> > 1 -1.13999917 -0.87868106 -0.33000492  1.5241765 -0.92483388
> > 2 -0.56168006 -0.08837883  1.96237792 -0.5335615  0.02880586
> > 3  0.82800071 -1.89965562 -0.05438815 -0.9162857 -0.57470053
> > 4 -0.03218412 -0.23119263 -1.10671765 -0.2885518 -0.30953951
> > 5  1.70525779 -0.93854817 -1.05932636 -0.2983139 -0.21980145
> > 6  1.19047531  0.38301678 -0.20830015 -0.6668266  0.82578534
> >
> > Suppose I want to add columns X6, X7, X8, where
> > X6 = X1^2
> > X7 = X2^2
> > X8 = X3^2
> >
> > I am thinking of using apply(), but df asks for column names, what's a
> > quick way to generate names on the fly?
> >
> > Thank you very much!
> >
> >
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