It will never hurt your chances to get an answer if you tell what the code in the different language actually does. Is it doing t-est for all of the variables and the group indicators are in a separate column? If, imagine you have the following data:
id<-rep(c(1,2),each=100) x<-c(rnorm(100,0,1),rnorm(100,0.5,1)) y<-c(rnorm(100,-1,1),rnorm(100,-2,1)) z<-c(rnorm(100,3,1),rnorm(100,3.25,1)) data<-data.frame(id,x,y,z) #Now run a t.test on each column of data that is not "id", apply(data[,c("x","y","z")],2,function(a) t.test(a[data$id==1],a[data$id==2])) Here apply(data[,c("x","y","z")], ..., ...) says to select the columns with the names x, y, and z from the data.frame named data. apply(... , 2, ...) tells to apply a function over the columns (rather than rows) of the selected data and apply(..., ... , function(a) t.test(a[data$id==1],a[data$id==2])) tells to run the t.test on the input variable a (the input variable a will then be x, y, and z, respectively) for the group ids as they are stored in data$id. HTH, Daniel Mihovil Pletikos wrote: > > hi > i am new to r and i would like to how could i do something like this in > spss: > > T-TEST GROUPS=who('1' '2') > /MISSING=ANALYSIS > /VARIABLES= X3881686 X2672712 X2842570 X3526544 X2902531 X2402942 > X3382216 > X3771800 X2427469 X2392945 X2453006 X2562821 X3416651 X3552083 X3721851 > X2477438 X2926969 X3026969 X3442176 X3796335 X2622772 X3636470 X2952497 > X2367537 X3332276 X2427500 X2647315 > /CRITERIA=CI(.95). > > so i wouldn't have to enter the name of columns by hand, but automaticly > ... please help me > > Mihovil > > [[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. > -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/simple-t-test-for-multiple-colimns-tp3802347p3804194.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.