Thank you, Arun. Your first suggestion works perfectly and I will use that. - Barry
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 12:45 PM, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Also, you could try: > > library(plyr) > indx <- ddply(Prices.df,.(rowID),summarise, > !findInterval(Price,unique(upperLimit[match(rowID,names(upperLimit))])))[,2] > Prices.df[indx,] > Prices.df[!indx,] > > > #or > indx1 <- !with(Prices.df,ave(seq_along(Price),rowID,FUN=function(x) > findInterval(Price[x],unique(upperLimit[match(rowID[x],names(upperLimit))])))) > Prices.df[indx1,] > Prices.df[!indx1,] > > > A.K. > > > On Saturday, February 15, 2014 12:19 PM, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > May be this helps: > Prices.df <- read.table(text="rowID Price > 1 'Full Season' 417.95 > 2 'Full Season' 679.43 > 3 'Full Season' 839.79 > 4 'Half Season' 159.39 > 5 'Half Season' 256.93",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE) > upperLimit <- c(`Full Season`=779.12, `Half Season`=231.11) > > > rejectdf <- do.call(rbind,lapply(names(upperLimit),function(x) {x1 <- > subset(Prices.df,rowID==x); indx <- > with(x1,cut(Price,breaks=c(-Inf,upperLimit[x],Inf),labels=FALSE)); > x1[indx>1,]})) > > acceptdf <- do.call(rbind,lapply(names(upperLimit),function(x) {x1 <- > subset(Prices.df,rowID==x); indx <- > with(x1,cut(Price,breaks=c(-Inf,upperLimit[x],Inf),labels=FALSE)); > x1[indx==1,]})) > > A.K. > > > On Saturday, February 15, 2014 4:36 AM, Barry King <barry.k...@qlx.com> > wrote: > I wish to compare prices in a dataframe to calculated upper limits and > then reject (collect in a reject dataframe) those rows with prices that > are above the upper limit but I am having trouble aligning the variable > value in the Prices dataframe with the names in the upper limit file. > > > upperLimit > Full Season Half Season > 779.12 231.11 > > > Prices.df > rowID Price > 1 Full Season 417.95 > 2 Full Season 679.43 > 3 Full Season 839.79 > 4 Half Season 159.39 > 5 Half Season 256.93 > > Any assistance you can provide is greatly appreciated. > > Barry King > > [[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. > > -- __________________________ *Barry E. King, Ph.D.* Chief Modeler Qualex Consulting Services, Inc. barry.k...@qlx.com O: (317)940-5464 M: (317)507-0661 __________________________ [[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.