Hello everyone, 

 

I'm a new R user switching from SAS and JMP. In the first few days, I have
been trying to do a fairly simple task but yet found no success. I've
checked the help archive as well as few R textbooks but didn't seem to find
the answer. So, please help me if you can.

 

Basically, I want to calculate the correlation between variable A and B for
every subject in my study. (yep, that simple)

What I did is this:

 

by(data, id, function (x) cor.test(A,B, data=x))

 

The results gave me numbers of correlation for each subject. But, the
problem is that, all these correlations are the same numbers and the sample
size was always the entire database (including all subjects). I've also
tried the lm function instead of the cor.test, and the by() function works
fine. Can any of you tell me what I did wrong? Or could you tell me what is
the best way to apply a function by subjects? Thank you!

 

 

Best,

Che-hsu (Joe) Chang, Sc.D., P.T.

 


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