HI, May be this helps. dat1<-data.frame(ID=formatC(0001:0010,width=4,flag="0"),No_of_Effectors=rep(3,10)) dat1<-within(dat1,{ID<-as.character(ID)}) list1<-lapply(1:nrow(dat1),function(x) paste(sample(1:10000,3,replace=TRUE)),sep=",")
dat2<-data.frame(dat1,do.call(rbind,lapply(lapply(1:nrow(dat1),function(x) sample(1:10000,3,replace=TRUE)),function(x) paste(x,collapse=",")))) colnames(dat2)[3]<-"Effectors" dat2 # ID No_of_Effectors Effectors #1 0001 3 4759,8109,7997 #2 0002 3 2649,9496,9167 #3 0003 3 4229,3282,6235 #4 0004 3 5388,3088,6420 #5 0005 3 5602,5981,4749 #6 0006 3 4971,6956,5913 #7 0007 3 4999,9465,799 #8 0008 3 8419,4346,266 #9 0009 3 9329,8819,4011 #10 0010 3 5817,8729,6499 dat3<-within(dat2,{Effectors<-as.character(Effectors)}) #converting back the Effector column to numeric 3 columns res<-do.call(rbind,lapply(strsplit(dat3[,3],","),function(x) as.numeric(x))) head(res) # [,1] [,2] [,3] #[1,] 4759 8109 7997 #[2,] 2649 9496 9167 #[3,] 4229 3282 6235 #[4,] 5388 3088 6420 #[5,] 5602 5981 4749 #[6,] 4971 6956 5913 A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Benjamin Ward (ENV) <b.w...@uea.ac.uk> To: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org> Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 5:32 AM Subject: [R] Having some Trouble Data Structures Hi All, I'm trying to run a simulation of host-pathogen evolution based around individuals. What I need to have is a dataframe or table of some description - describing all the individuals of a pathogen population (so far I've implemented this as a matrix): ID No_of_Effectors Effectors (Sequences) [1,] 0001 3 ## 3 Random Numbers ## There will be many such rows for many individuals. They have something called effectors, the number of which is randomly generated, so say you get 3 in the No_of_Effectors column. Then I make R generate 3 numbers from between 1 and 10,000, this gives me three numerical representations of genes. These numbers will be compared to a similar data structure of the host individuals who have their immune genes with similar numbers. My problem is that obviously I can't stick 3 numbers in one "cell" of the matrix (I've tried) : Pathogen_Individuals[1,3] <- c(2,3,4) Error in Pathogen_Individuals[1, 3] <- c(345, 567, 678) : number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length In future I'm also going to have more variables such as whether a gene is expressed. Such information may require a matrix in itself - something like: Effector ID Sequence Expressed? [1,] 0001 345,567,678 1 (or 0). Is there a way then I can put more than one value in the cell like a list of values, or a way to put objects in a cell of a data frame, matrix or table etc. Almost an inception deal - data structures nested in a data structure? If I search for things like "insert list into matrix" I get results like how to turn one into another, which is not what I think I need to be doing. I have been considering having several data structures not nested in each other, something like for every individual create a new matrix object with the name Effectors_[Individual_ID] and some how get my simulation loops operating on those objects but I find it hard to see how to tell R all of those matrices are to be included in an operation, as you can all lines of a data frame for example with for loops. This is strange for me because this model was written in a macro-code for another program which handles data in a different format and layout to R. My problem is I think, each individual in the model has many variables - in this case representations of genes. So I'm having trouble getting my head about this. Hopefully someone more experienced will be able to offer advice or a solution, it will be very appreciated. Many Thanks, Ben Ward (ENV, UEA & The Sainsbury Lab, JIC). P.S. I have searched previous queries to the list, and I'm not sure but this may be useful for relevant: Have you thought of using a list? > a <- matrix(1:10, nrow=2) > b <- 1:5 > x <- list(a=a, b=b) > x $a [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,] 1 3 5 7 9 [2,] 2 4 6 8 10 $b [1] 1 2 3 4 5 > x$a [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,] 1 3 5 7 9 [2,] 2 4 6 8 10 > x$b [1] 1 2 3 4 5 oliveoil and yarn datasets have been mentioned. [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.