Dear All, I would like to be able to associate a list of vectors (one vector of which is to be called later) with some other character and numeric data. I've tried two methods:
1) I can put the vector names in quotes into the dataframe, and then extract the vector name - but this is just a character string - which I would then like to use to re-express the original vector, which was defined earlier. 2) If I try to put the vectors directly into the dataframe it's not accepted because the vectors have different lengths (and in any case it is the name of the vector which needs to be associated with the other data, not particular values). Probably I'm missing something basic ? Many thanks in advance (!) Example coding showing how far I've got is as follows: library(gdata) F4087 <- c(234,1234,65,34,624,345) F4187 <- c(234,542,4523,56345,233,5654,776,4788,78768,456,8756) F4287 <- c(3423,543,6768,867,945,3456,5634,6543,345) rsquaredtrun <- c("R4087", "R4187", "R4287") rsquaredtrun rsquaredvalues <- c(0.1, 0.2, 0.3) rsquaredvalues dxtrunlist <- c("F4087", "F4187", "F4287") dxtrunlist rsquareddf <- data.frame(rsquaredtrun, rsquaredvalues, dxtrunlist) rsquareddf df.agg <- aggregate(rsquaredvalues ~ rsquaredvalues, rsquareddf, max) df.agg rsquared.max <- merge(df.agg, rsquareddf) rsquared.max rsquared.max2 <- drop.levels(rsquared.max) rsquared.max2 maxr <- rsquared.max2["dxtrunlist"] maxr maxrr <- as.matrix(maxr) maxrr maxrrr <- as.vector(maxrr) maxrrr The question is - how can I resurrect the vector F4287 from maxrrr ?? ______________________________________________ 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.