I can't reproduce your work, but I think you just need > regionMatchABCDE[,i] <- cbind(regionMatch[,10:18])
instead of regionMatchABCDE <- cbind(regionMatch[,10:18]) within the for loop Scott On Monday, March 21, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Who Am I? wrote: Hoi All, > > I am trying to append collums to a data frame in a for loop. I read in > tables, do some processing and then write the result to a data.frame. But, > the thing I want is, that the results are appended to the data frame in > stead of overwriting the results of the prevous table. > It has to look something like this: > > After going trough the loop once: > Array 1 > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > > After going trough the loop twice: > Array 1 Array 2 > 1 1 > 2 2 > 3 3 > 4 4 > 5 5 > > After going trough the loop three times: > Array 1 Array 2 Array 3 > 1 1 1 > 2 2 2 > 3 3 3 > 4 4 4 > 5 5 5 > > This is my code: > > setwd("J:/Stage/Datasets2/Datasets/outData") > > masterTable<-read.table("AR1000900A_N_241110_(Mapping250K_Nsp)_2,Mapping250K_Nsp,CNprobes.tab > _SNP_IDs.xls",sep="\t", dec=",", fill=T, header=T) > masterTable<-data.frame(masterTable) > > fileNames<-list.files(getwd(), pattern='_0,5 -0,51.xls') > regionMatchABCDE<-data.frame() > > for(i in 1:5) { > fileName <- fileNames[i] > newFile <- file.path(getwd(), paste(fileNames[i], "samen_0,5 > -0,51.xls")) > snpidFile<-read.table(fileNames[i],sep="\t", dec=",", fill=T, header=T) > snpidFile<-data.frame(snpidFile) > regionMatch<-cbind(masterTable, masterTable[match(masterTable$Pos, > snpidFile$Pos),]) > regionMatchABCDE<-cbind(regionMatch[,10:18]) > } > > write.table(regionMatchABCDE, file= "Array 0-1-2-3-4-5.xls", col.names=T, > row.names=F, quote=F, sep = "\t") > > Thanks! > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/appending-collums-in-for-loop-tp3393445p3393445.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.