Hello! I've tried for a while - but can't figure it out. I have data frame x:
y=c("a","b","c","d","e") z=c("m","n","o","p","r") a=c(0,0,1,0,0) b=c(2,0,0,0,0) c=c(0,0,0,4,0) x<-data.frame(y,z,a,b,c,stringsAsFactors=F) str(x) Some of the values in columns a,b, and c are >0: I need to write a loop through all the cells in columns a,b,c that are >0 (only through them). For each of those cells, I need to know: 1. Name of the column it is in 2 The entry of column y that is in the same row 3 The entry of column z that is in the same row It'd be good to save this info in a data frame somehow - so that I could loop through rows of this data frame. To explain what I need it for eventually: I have a different data frame "large.df" that has the same columns (variables) - but with many more entries than "x". Something like: large.df<-expand.grid(y,z) names(large.df)<-c("y","z") set.seed(123) large.df$a<-sample(0:5,75,replace=T) set.seed(234) large.df$b<-sample(0:5,75,replace=T) set.seed(345) large.df$c<-sample(0:5,75,replace=T) large.df$y<-as.character(large.df$y) large.df$z<-as.character(large.df$z) large.df<-large.df[order(large.df$y,large.df$z),] row.names(large.df)<-1:nrow(large.df) (large.df);str(large.df) 1. Find the first cell in x that is > 0 (in this case - it's x[3,"a"]. 2. Find all the corresponding cells in the large.df - in this case, it's: large.df[large.df$y %in% "c" & large.df$z %in% "o","a"] and those 3 values can be found in rows 37:39 of large.df, in column "a". 3. Take those 3 values and add to them the corresponding value in x (in this case = 1) divided by their length (in this case = 3). 4. Do the same for the other cells in x that are >0. The final result will be (sorry for lengthy code): large.df[large.df$y %in% "c" & large.df$z %in% "o","a"]<-large.df[large.df$y %in% "c" & large.df$z %in% "o","a"]+x[3,"a"]/3 large.df[large.df$y %in% "a" & large.df$z %in% "m","b"]<-large.df[large.df$y %in% "a" & large.df$z %in% "m","b"]+x[1,"b"]/3 large.df[large.df$y %in% "d" & large.df$z %in% "p","c"]<-large.df[large.df$y %in% "d" & large.df$z %in% "p","c"]+x[4,"c"]/3 (large.df) (It just happens that at the end I divide by 3 - it could be anything that is length(large.df[large.df$y %in% "c" & large.df$z %in% "o","a"]), etc. Thanks a lot for your suggestions! -- Dimitri Liakhovitski Ninah Consulting www.ninah.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.