Hi Kathi, Are you looking for something like this?
> Alist <- letters[1:4] > Blist <- 1:5 > Clist <- LETTERS[24:26] > Alist [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" > Blist [1] 1 2 3 4 5 > Clist [1] "X" "Y" "Z" > expand.grid(Alist, Blist, Clist) Var1 Var2 Var3 1 a 1 X 2 b 1 X 3 c 1 X 4 d 1 X 5 a 2 X 6 b 2 X 7 c 2 X 8 d 2 X 9 a 3 X 10 b 3 X 11 c 3 X 12 d 3 X 13 a 4 X 14 b 4 X 15 c 4 X 16 d 4 X 17 a 5 X 18 b 5 X 19 c 5 X 20 d 5 X 21 a 1 Y 22 b 1 Y 23 c 1 Y 24 d 1 Y 25 a 2 Y 26 b 2 Y 27 c 2 Y 28 d 2 Y 29 a 3 Y 30 b 3 Y 31 c 3 Y 32 d 3 Y 33 a 4 Y 34 b 4 Y 35 c 4 Y 36 d 4 Y 37 a 5 Y 38 b 5 Y 39 c 5 Y 40 d 5 Y 41 a 1 Z 42 b 1 Z 43 c 1 Z 44 d 1 Z 45 a 2 Z 46 b 2 Z 47 c 2 Z 48 d 2 Z 49 a 3 Z 50 b 3 Z 51 c 3 Z 52 d 3 Z 53 a 4 Z 54 b 4 Z 55 c 4 Z 56 d 4 Z 57 a 5 Z 58 b 5 Z 59 c 5 Z 60 d 5 Z Steven McKinney ________________________________________ From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of BORGMANN,Kathi [kborgm...@audubon.org] Sent: March 28, 2011 11:43 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] rep for multiple categories Hi, I am R beginner and am trying to figure out how to generate a complete list of species for every point, visit, and year. The code below is close but does not give me a list of species for every point, visit, and year in my data set. spplist<-unique(sumPtCt$Species) spplength<-length(spplist) Pointlist<-unique(sumPtCt$Point) Pointlength<-length(Pointlist) Visitlist<-unique(sumPtCt$Visit) Visitlength<-length(Visitlist) Yearlist<-unique(sumPtCt$Year) Yearlength<-length(Yearlist) s<-rep(spplist, each=Pointlength, Visitlength, Yearlength) p<-rep(Pointlist, spplength) v<-rep(Visitlist, spplength) y<-rep(Yearlist, spplength) template<-data.frame(Species=s,Point=p, Visit=v, Year=y) ###merge template and data and replace NAs with 0 FinalPtCt<-merge(template, sumPtCt, all=T) FinalPtCt$Number[is.na(FinalPtCt$Number)]<-0 Essentially I have data that look like this SPP Point Visit Number BUFF 1 1 5 WEGR 1 1 10 CLGR 1 1 15 WEGU 2 1 5 RUDU 2 1 15 HOGR 2 1 5 But I want to generate this Spp Point Visit Number BUFF 1 1 5 WEGR 1 1 10 CLGR 1 1 15 WEGU 1 1 0 RUDU 1 1 0 HOGR 1 1 0 WEGU 2 1 5 RUDU 2 1 15 HOGR 2 1 5 BUFF 2 1 0 WEGR 2 1 0 CLGR 2 1 0 ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.