Try this for the second question: > years <- map2(zz, + list(c(2000, 2001), c(2001, 2003)), + ~ filter(.x, year %in% .y) + ) > years [[1]] # A tibble: 6 x 4 year tot_i relation g_rate <dbl> <dbl> <chr> <dbl> 1 2000 22393349. EU28-Algeria 0.736 2 2001 23000574. EU28-Algeria 0.0271 3 2000 34361300. World-Algeria 0.615 4 2001 35297815. World-Algeria 0.0273 5 2000 11967951. Extra EU28-Algeria 0.428 6 2001 12297241. Extra EU28-Algeria 0.0275
[[2]] # A tibble: 6 x 4 year tot_i relation g_rate <dbl> <dbl> <chr> <dbl> 1 2001 7869288. EU28-Egypt -0.148 2 2003 6395999. EU28-Egypt -0.120 3 2001 19851236. World-Egypt -0.0721 4 2003 16055014. World-Egypt -0.175 5 2001 11981948. Extra EU28-Egypt -0.0147 6 2003 9659015. Extra EU28-Egypt -0.207 > Jim Holtman *Data Munger Guru* *What is the problem that you are trying to solve?Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.* On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 5:45 AM Lorenzo Isella <lorenzo.ise...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > I am making my baby steps with the tidyverse purr package and I am > stuck with some probably trivial tasks. > Consider the following data set > > > zz<-list(structure(list(year = c(2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2000, 2001, > 2002, 2003, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003), tot_i = c(22393349.081, > 23000574.372, 21682040.898, 21671102.853, 34361300.338, 35297814.942, > 34745691.204, 35878883.117, 11967951.257, 12297240.57, 13063650.306, > 14207780.264), relation = c("EU28-Algeria", "EU28-Algeria", > "EU28-Algeria", > "EU28-Algeria", "World-Algeria", "World-Algeria", "World-Algeria", > "World-Algeria", "Extra EU28-Algeria", "Extra EU28-Algeria", > "Extra EU28-Algeria", "Extra EU28-Algeria"), g_rate = c(0.736046372770467, > 0.0271163231905857, -0.0573261107603093, -0.000504474880914325, > 0.614846575418334, 0.0272549232650638, -0.0156418673197543, > 0.0326138831530727, > 0.428272657063707, 0.0275142592018328, 0.0623237165799383, > 0.0875811837579971 > )), row.names = c(NA, -12L), class = c("tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame" > )), structure(list(year = c(2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2000, 2001, > 2002, 2003, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003), tot_i = c(9233346.648, 7869288.171, > 7271485.687, 6395999.102, 21393949.287, 19851236.26, 19449339.887, > 16055014.309, 12160602.639, 11981948.089, 12177854.2, 9659015.207 > ), relation = c("EU28-Egypt", "EU28-Egypt", "EU28-Egypt", "EU28-Egypt", > "World-Egypt", "World-Egypt", "World-Egypt", "World-Egypt", "Extra > EU28-Egypt", > "Extra EU28-Egypt", "Extra EU28-Egypt", "Extra EU28-Egypt"), > g_rate = c(0.0970653722744164, -0.147731751985664, -0.0759665259436081, > -0.120399959882366, 0.124744629514854, -0.0721097823643728, > -0.0202454077789513, -0.174521376957825, 0.146712116047648, > -0.0146912579338002, 0.0163501051368976, -0.206837670383671 > )), row.names = c(NA, -12L), class = c("tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame" > ))) > > I am capable of doing very simple stuff with maps for instance taking the > iteratively the mean of a certain column > > map(zz, function(x) mean(x$tot_i)) > > or filtering the values of the years > > map(zz, function(x) filter(x, year==2000)) > > however, I bang my head against the wall as soon as I want to add a bit of > complexity. For instance > > 1) I want to iteratively group the data in zz by relation and summarise > them by taking the average of tot_i and > > 2) Given a list of years > > ll<-list(c(2000, 2001), c(2001, 2003)) > > I would like to filter the two elements of the zz list according to the > years listed in ll. > > I would then have plenty of other operations to carry out on the data, but > already understanding 1 and 2 would take me a long way from where I am > stuck now. > > Any suggestion is welcome. > Cheers > > Lorenzo > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[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.