Why can't this function be used with the 'by' command? > x = array(runif(16), dim=c(8,2)) > x = data.frame(x) > x$group = rep(c('wt', 'app'), each=4)
> shapiro.p = function(x) shapiro.test(x)[[2]] > apply(x[,1:2], 2, shapiro.p) X1 X2 0.4126345 0.2208781 > by(x[,1:2], x$group, shapiro.p) Error in `[.data.frame`(x, complete.cases(x)) : undefined columns selected [[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.