Hello,

Thank you for response

I have try reshape function, but i do not like the way how it generate
columns and row names. Currently

> tapply(s$value, list(s$day, s$symbol), mean)

seems to generate exactly what i need

Cheers,
Dima

2011/3/5 Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>

>
>
>
> On 04.03.2011 11:38, Dmitrij Kudriavcev wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> Let's say, my data.frame is
>>
>> symbol,day,value
>> A, 2010-01-01, 0.8888
>> A, 2010-01-02, 0.6666
>> B, 2010-01-01, 0.7777
>>
>> i need to get matrix as
>>
>
>
> See ?reshape, in this case if you data.frame is in dat:
>
> reshape(dat, v.names="value", direction="wide",
>        idvar="day", timevar="symbol")
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>
>  , A, B
>> 2010-01-01, 0.8888, 0.7777
>> 2010-01-02, 0.6666, NA
>>
>> where A and B is columns name and date used as row name
>>
>> I found a way how to do it with tapply function, is it a best way (i will
>> need to do this pretty offen and wish to save some time)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dima
>>
>>
>> 2011/3/4 Ivan Calandra<ivan.calandra@uni-hamburg.de>
>>
>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> Let's say your data.frame is called df:
>>> df<- data.frame(a=rnorm(10), b=rnorm(10))
>>> data.matrix<- as.matrix(df)
>>>
>>> This should work, but be careful with coercion if you have different
>>> modes
>>> in your data.frame
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Ivan
>>>
>>> PS: next time, provide a reproducible example, using dput() for example
>>>
>>> Le 3/4/2011 07:08, Dmitrij Kudriavcev a écrit :
>>>
>>>  Hello
>>>>
>>>> I'm a new in R
>>>> I have a large data.frame "s" (this is actualy just a table in mysql) :
>>>>
>>>>  names(s)
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  [1] "symbols", "day", "value"
>>>>
>>>> I need to convert it to simple matrix. I have define this matrix like
>>>> this:
>>>>
>>>>  data.matrix<- matrix(nrow=nDays, ncol=nSymbols, dimnames=list(days,
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  symbols))
>>>>
>>>> then i just copy values to the matrix using for() loop, but it seems to
>>>> take
>>>> very long time. Is is a more fast way to do it in R? I know, what i can
>>>> just
>>>> gyve s$value as source data to the matrix, but problem is, what for some
>>>> symbols couple days could be just missed.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Dima
>>>>
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