Can't this be fixed by switching with to within? E.g., x = data.frame(a = 1:3, b = 4:6)
AddRowSums <- function(df) within(df, d <- a + b) x <- AddRowSums(x) print(x) Michael On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:07 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Dec 6, 2011, at 5:53 PM, Steve E. wrote: > >> Bill (and David), >> >> Thank you very much for taking the time to respond to my query. >> >> You were right, I was creating and calling the function exactly as you had >> predicted. I revised the structure based on your suggestion. It runs but >> the output is an array of the flags that are not attached to the data >> frame, >> not a new column in the data frame as was my intention. >> >> So, the new configuration I tried was like this (where DataFrame is not a >> real data frame but just the word "DataFrame"): >> >> WQFlags <- function(DataFrame) {DataFrame$CalciumFlag <- with(DataFrame, >> ifelse(variable == "CaD_ICP", (dataqualifier <- c("Y", 'Q', "", "A") >> [findInterval(DataFrame$value, c(-Inf, 0.027, 0.1, 100, Inf))]),"")) >> } >> >> I called it using: >> >> WaterQualityData <- WQFlags(WaterQualityData) > > > Unless you provide either the original data or an unambiguous ( at the level > the R interpreter would see, not at the level of what you see when you print > a dataframe) description of your data you will get at the very best educated > guesses. Use str() or dput(). > > >> >> Again, the output is simply an array of the flags, unattached to a data >> frame. Can you suggest a way to modify this to make it work as desired, >> or, >> in the worst case, can I attach the resulting array of flag values? > > > Do you mean "attach" in the sense of using the R function `attach`? If so, > then please do not. (And please ignore any advice or the examples concerning > that issue you might get from reading Crawley's text.) > > > -- > > Good night. > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > > ______________________________________________ > 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.