Maybe you are thinking of the levels function rather than the names function? Which still presumes the column is a factor column, when it might actually be a character column (in which case you might use the unique function). Again, a reproducible example would stop the guessing. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On November 6, 2017 11:26:24 AM PST, Matti Viljamaa <mvilja...@kapsi.fi> wrote: >It’s sometimes faster to ask from someone who has already learnt the >syntax. >In this case one has to do e.g. > >names(data$somecol) > >To get the collection and then iteration through it is almost like in >Python: > >for(i in names(data$somecol)) { > # do something >} > >> Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> kirjoitti 6.11.2017 kello 19.55: >> >> Time to go through a tutorial or two! -- This forum cannot replace >such self study. >> >> Your query evidences some basic confusion, but ?tapply or the >equivalent lapply(split(...)) construct are most likely relevant. >> >> Cheers, >> Bert >> >> >> >> Bert Gunter >> >> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming >along and sticking things into it." >> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) >> >> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 9:40 AM, mviljamaa <mvilja...@kapsi.fi ><mailto:mvilja...@kapsi.fi>> wrote: >> How can I do a for loop that does to a data.frame column what: >> >> for x in xs: >> >> does in Python? >> >> Obviously the data.frame column in question holds "levels". What if >the data.frame is in matrix form? >> >> BR, Matti >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list -- To >UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help ><https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ><http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.