Thanks for the suggestion Jorge!

 - that gives me subscript out of bounds error. perhaps I can tweak the
parameters? I've never worked with that command.

Pat
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Jorge Ivan Velez
<jorgeivanvelez@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> How about this (untested)?
>
> a <- codboot[c(4)]
> round(a$bca[4, 5], 2)
>
> HTH,
> Jorge
>
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Patrick Santoso <> wrote:
>
>> Good Morning,
>>
>> I'm having what I hope to be a simple problem. I am generating bootstrap
>> confidence intervals using package (boot) - which works perfectly. The
>> issue
>> I am having is getting the results into a format which I can write out to
>> a
>> database. To be clear I am having no problems generating the results, I
>> just
>> need to convert the format of the results such that I can store the
>> results
>> in a dataframe to save out to a database.
>>
>> I am doing the following:
>>
>> ## Generate 20,000 bootstrap samples
>> cod.boot <- boot(trimmed$ratio, cod, R=20000)
>>
>> ## generate 90% BCA boostrap confidence intervals
>> codboot <- boot.ci(cod.boot,conf = c(0.90), type= c("bca"))
>>
>> At this point I have stored the answer I want to the variable codboot, but
>> the problem is it is in the format as follows:
>>
>> BOOTSTRAP CONFIDENCE INTERVAL CALCULATIONS
>> Based on 20000 bootstrap replicates
>>
>> CALL :
>> boot.ci(boot.out = cod.boot, conf = c(0.9), type = c("bca"))
>>
>> Intervals :
>> Level       BCa
>> 90%   ( 6.10, 10.23 )
>> Calculations and Intervals on Original Scale
>>
>> What I would like is the 6.10, and 10.23 each stored in their own
>> variables
>> so I can combine them into my existing dataframe (using cbind). The best
>> I've been able to do so far is:
>>
>> a <- codboot[c(4)]
>>
>> which gives me a:
>>
>> $bca
>>     conf
>> [1,]  0.9 2343.41 19683.87 6.099788 10.23007
>>
>> which is closer, but I cannot parse this variable enough to get the 6.10
>> and
>> 10.23 out since apparently strsplit doesn't allow splitting on spaces.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Best Regards & Thank You in Advance
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Patrick Santoso
>>
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>>
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