Hi Brad, You do not really need to reshape the correlation matrix. This seems to do what you want:
spec.cor <- function(dat, r, ...) { x <- cor(dat, ...) x[upper.tri(x, TRUE)] <- NA i <- which(abs(x) >= r, arr.ind = TRUE) data.frame(matrix(colnames(x)[as.vector(i)], ncol = 2), value = x[i]) } spec.cor(mtcars[, 2:5], .6) Cheers, Josh On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:58 PM, B77S <bps0...@auburn.edu> wrote: > Thanks Michael, > > I just started on the following code (below), and realized I should as as > this might exist. > > basically what I'd like is for the function to return (basically) what you > just suggested, plus the names of the two variables (I suppose pasted > together would be good). > > I hope that is clear. > > # > sig.cor <- function(dat, r, ...){ > > cv2 <- data.frame(cor(dat)) > var.names <- rownames(cv2) > > list.cv2 <- which(cv2 >=r | cv2 <= -r, arr.ind=T) > cor.r <- cv2[list.cv2[which(list.cv2 [,"row"]!=list.cv2 [,"col"]),]] > cor.names <- var.names[list.cv2[which(list.cv2 [,"row"]!=list.cv2 > [,"col"]),]] > > > return(cor.r) > > } > > > > > > Michael Weylandt wrote: >> >> What exactly do you mean "returns" them? More generally I suppose, >> what do you have in mind to do with this? >> >> You could do something like this: >> >> BigCorrelation <- function(X){ >> >> return(which(abs(cor(X)) > 0.9, arr.ind = T)) >> } >> >> but it hardly seems worth its own function call. >> >> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:42 AM, B77S <bps0002@> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I would like to find out if a function already exists that returns only >>> pairwise correlations above/below a certain threshold (e.g, -.90, .90) >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/return-only-pairwise-correlations-greater-than-given-value-tp4079028p4079028.html >>> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@ 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@ 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/return-only-pairwise-correlations-greater-than-given-value-tp4079028p4079044.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. > -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology Programmer Analyst II, ATS Statistical Consulting Group University of California, Los Angeles https://joshuawiley.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.