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From: Norman McBride <npmcbride0917@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 9:54 AM
Subject: Implementing a Formula into a Column of a Data Frame
To: r-help@r-project.org


Now, if I were to move the data over from an excel doc would that change
anything. I do understand that that I would have to change it to a csv
document and create a variable for it. Just to give you a more visual
understanding of what I am doing I a portion of the head of the data is
shown below.  So the formula would specifically be:  Battery Heat (Watts) /
( Surface Area (Square Meters) * ( Battery Temperature (Celsius) - Air
Temperature (Celsius) ) and that would be the value put into the Cooling
Coefficient Column currently set at one. One final note, when using
function() should I input variable such as a,b, c and then change then
change them when using the do.call function or should I just do it with the
column names the first time? Thank you for the help I really appreciate it.

structure(list(`Time (Seconds)` = c(20.318162, 21.316219, 22.316277,
23.316334, 24.316391, 25.316448, 26.316505, 27.315562, 28.315619,
29.315677, 30.315734, 31.315791, 32.315848, 33.315906, 34.315963,
35.31602, 36.316077, 37.316134, 38.316192, 39.316249), `Battery Temperature
(Celsius)` = c(12.290895,
12.331806, 12.373601, 12.424348, 12.467361, 12.522784, 12.581674,
12.642473, 12.713441, 12.760907, 12.832591, 12.90363, 12.953117,
13.037519, 13.103664, 13.193626, 13.267647, 13.340661, 13.439084,
13.512353), `Air Temperature (Celsius)` = c(12.109872, 12.130341,
12.127966, 12.126647, 12.138111, 12.13635, 12.133192, 12.137278,
12.144941, 12.140494, 12.145511, 12.143312, 12.136964, 12.15125,
12.1607, 12.162753, 12.152606, 12.148803, 12.16181, 12.151917
), `Battery Heat (Watts)` = c(1.634698, 1.634698, 1.634882, 1.634703,
1.634614, 1.634435, 1.634435, 1.634252, 1.634252, 1.634163, 1.633435,
1.633801, 1.633444, 1.63344, 1.804659, 2.013801, 2.013905, 2.013905,
2.0139, 2.013107), `Surface Area (Square Meters)` = c(0.00637115,
0.00637115, 0.00637115, 0.00637115, 0.00637115, 0.00637115, 0.00637115,
0.00637115, 0.00637115, 0.00637115, 0.00637115, 0.00637115, 0.00637115,
0.00637115, 0.00637115, 0.00637115, 0.00637115, 0.00637115, 0.00637115,
0.00637115), `Cooling Coefficient` = c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1)), .Names = c("Time (Seconds)",
"Battery Temperature (Celsius)", "Air Temperature (Celsius)",
"Battery Heat (Watts)", "Surface Area (Square Meters)", "Cooling
Coefficient"
), row.names = c(NA, 20L), class = "data.frame")

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