Hello,

These two gives the same results:


aggregate(values ~ sex + status, mydata, sum)
#  sex status values
#1   0      0    224
#2   1      0   5227
#3   0      1     11
#4   1      1    552


by(mydata$values, list(mydata$sex, mydata$status), sum)
#: 0
#: 0
#[1] 224
#------------------------------------------------------------
#: 1
#: 0
#[1] 5227
#------------------------------------------------------------
#: 0
#: 1
#[1] 11
#------------------------------------------------------------
#: 1
#: 1
#[1] 552


So Duncan is right, your expected output's 2nd sum is wrong, the right sum is

mydata rows 2 and 6: 4730 + 497 == 5227
----------------------------------------^

Another option, returning a matrix,

 tapply(mydata$values, list(mydata$sex, mydata$status), sum)
#             0   1
#0     224  11
#1 5227 552


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas


Às 23:15 de 23/07/2020, Sorkin, John escreveu:
Colleagues,
The by function in the R program below is not giving me the sums
I expect to see, viz.,
382+170=552
4730+170=4900
5+6=11
199+25=224
###################################################
#full R program:
mydata <- data.frame(covid=c(0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1),
sex=(rep(c(1,1,0,0),2)),
status=rep(c(1,0),2),
values=c(382,4730,5,199,170,497,6,25))
mydata
by(mydata,list(mydata$sex,mydata$status),sum)
by(mydata,list(mydata$sex,mydata$status),print)
###################################################

More complete explanation of my question
I have created a simple dataframe having three factors:
  mydata <- data.frame(covid=c(0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1),
  sex=(rep(c(1,1,0,0),2)),
  status=rep(c(1,0),2),
  values=c(382,4730,5,199,170,497,6,25))
 > mydata
   covid sex status values
1     0   1      1    382
2     0   1      0   4730
3     0   0      1      5
4     0   0      0    199
5     1   1      1    170
6     1   1      0    497
7     1   0      1      6
8     1   0      0     25
When I use the by function with a sum as an argument, I don’t
get the sums that I would expect to
receive based either on the listing of the dataframe above,
or from using by with print as an argument:
by(mydata,list(mydata$sex,mydata$status),sum)
: 0
: 0
[1] 225
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
: 1
: 0
[1] 5230
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
: 0
: 1
[1] 14
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
: 1
: 1
[1] 557
I expected to see the following sums:
382+170=552
4730+170=4900
5+6=11
199+25=224
Which as can be seen by the output above, I am not getting.
Using print as an argument to the by function, I get the values
grouped as I would expect, but for some reason I get a double
printing of the values!
by(mydata,list(mydata$sex,mydata$status),print)
   covid sex status values
4     0   0      0    199
8     1   0      0     25
   covid sex status values
2     0   1      0   4730
6     1   1      0    497
   covid sex status values
3     0   0      1      5
7     1   0      1      6
   covid sex status values
1     0   1      1    382
5     1   1      1    170
: 0
: 0
   covid sex status values
4     0   0      0    199
8     1   0      0     25
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
: 1
: 0
   covid sex status values
2     0   1      0   4730
6     1   1      0    497
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
: 0
: 1
   covid sex status values
3     0   0      1      5
7     1   0      1      6
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
: 1
: 1
   covid sex status values
1     0   1      1    382
5     1   1      1    170
What am I doing wrong, or what don’t I understand
About the by function?
Thank you
John
















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