[R] About calculating average values from several matrices

Tue May 9 17:15:20 CEST 2017

yes, I just tried for the dataframe and it works, so there is no problem on
this side.

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Doran, Harold <HDoran at air.org> wrote:

> Im not sure if you’re asking a question or confirming that it works for
> you. But, obviously, the code below behaves as expected
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> *From:* lily li [mailto:chocold12 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 09, 2017 11:13 AM
> *To:* Doran, Harold <HDoran at air.org>
> *Cc:* Charles Determan <cdetermanjr at gmail.com>; R mailing list <
> r-help at r-project.org>
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> *Subject:* Re: [R] About calculating average values from several matrices
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> Yes, that means to control decimal numbers. For example, use round(2.3122,
> digits=1), it gets 2.3
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> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 9:11 AM, Doran, Harold <HDoran at air.org> wrote:
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> ?round
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> *From:* lily li [mailto:chocold12 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 09, 2017 11:10 AM
> *To:* Charles Determan <cdetermanjr at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Doran, Harold <HDoran at air.org>; R mailing list <r-help at r-project.org
> >
> *Subject:* Re: [R] About calculating average values from several matrices
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> Thanks very much, it works. But how to round the values to have only 1
> decimal digit or 2 decimal digits? I think by dividing, the values are
> double type now. Thanks again.
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> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Charles Determan <cdetermanjr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> If you want the mean of each element across you list of matrices the
> following should provide what you are looking for where Reduce sums all
> your matrix elements across matrices and the simply divided my the number
> of matrices for the element-wise mean.
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> Reduce(`+`, mylist)/length(mylist)
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> Regards,
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> Charles
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> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 9:52 AM, lily li <chocold12 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I meant for each cell, it takes the average from other dataframes at the
> same cell. I don't know how to deal with row names and col names though, so
> it has the error message.
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> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Doran, Harold <HDoran at air.org> wrote:
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> > It’s not clear to me what your actual structure is. Can you provide
> > str(object)? Assuming it is a list, and you want the mean over all cells
> or
> > columns, you might want like this:
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> > myData <- vector("list", 3)
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> > for(i in 1:3){
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> >                 myData[[i]] <- matrix(rnorm(100), 10, 10)
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> >                 }
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> >
> > ### mean over all cells
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> > sapply(myData, function(x) mean(x))
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> >
> > ### mean over all columns
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> > sapply(myData, function(x) colMeans(x))
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> > *From:* lily li [mailto:chocold12 at gmail.com]
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, May 09, 2017 10:44 AM
> > *To:* Doran, Harold <HDoran at air.org>
> > *Cc:* R mailing list <r-help at r-project.org>
> > *Subject:* Re: [R] About calculating average values from several matrices
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> > I'm trying to get a new dataframe or whatever to call, which has the same
> > structure with each file as listed above. For each cell in the new
> > dataframe or the new file, it is the average value from former dataframes
> > at the same location. Thanks.
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> > On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Doran, Harold <HDoran at air.org> wrote:
> >
> > Are you trying to take the mean over all cells, or over rows/columns
> > within each dataframe. Also, are these different dataframes stored
> within a
> > list or are they standalone?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of lily li
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2017 10:39 AM
> > To: R mailing list <r-help at r-project.org>
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> > Subject: [R] About calculating average values from several matrices
> >
> > Hi R users,
> >
> > I have a question about manipulating the data.
> > For example, there are several such data frames or matrices, and I want
> to
> > calculate the average value from all the data frames or matrices. How to
> do
> > it? Also, should I convert them to data frame or matrix first? Right now,
> > when I use typeof() function, each one is a list.
> >
> > file1
> >             jan   feb   mar   apr   may   jun   jul   aug   sep   oct
>  nov
> >
> > app1   1.1   1.2    0.8    0.9   1.3    1.5   2.2   3.2   3.0    1.2
>  1.1
> > app2   3.1   3.2    2.8    2.5   2.3    2.5   3.2   3.0   2.9    1.8
>  1.8
> > app3   5.1   5.2    3.8    4.9   5.3    5.5   5.2   4.2   5.0    4.2
>  4.1
> >
> > file2
> >             jan   feb   mar   apr   may   jun   jul   aug   sep   oct
>  nov
> >
> > app1   1.9   1.5    0.5    0.9   1.2    1.8   2.5   3.7   3.2    1.5
>  1.6
> > app2   3.5   3.7    2.3    2.2   2.5    2.0   3.6   3.2   2.8    1.2
>  1.4
> > app3   5.5   5.0    3.5    4.4   5.4    5.6   5.3   4.4   5.2    4.3
>  4.2
> >
> > file3 has the similar structure and values...
> >
> > There are eight such files, and when I use the function mean(file1,
> file2,
> > file3, ..., file8), it returns the error below. Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Warning message:
> > In mean.default(file1, file2, file3, file4, file5, file6, file7,  :
> >   argument is not numeric or logical: returning NA
> >
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