Hello friend. I believe anova might be a better solution for you. You might have a look here: http://www.personality-project.org/r/r.anova.html
A simple R session that will work for you is: # getting the data in: data1 <- read.table( "enter the path of the file here, look at ?read.table for exact syntax) aov1 <- aov(data ~ gender + disease + genotype ,data = data1) summary(aov1) If you insist on t.test, here is the way: t.test(data ~ gender ,data = data1) t.test(data ~ disease ,data = data1) t.test(data ~ genotype ,data = data1) Cheers, Tal On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:23 PM, 1Rnwb <sbpuro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear list, > > i am a biologist who needs to do some ttest between disease and non > disease, > sex, genotype and the serum levels of proteins on a large number of > individuals. i have been using excel for a long time but it is very tedious > and time consuming. i am posting the data below and ask your help in > generating a code to get this analysis done in R. thanks > > gender disease genotype data > M N CC 3.206447188 > F N CC 8.2 > M N CC 15.78908629 > M N CC 21.14311843 > F N CC 21.48413647 > M N CC 30.08028842 > M N CC 30.11455009 > F N CC 32.41258845 > F N CT 6622.253065 > M N CT 6763.6 > M N CT 7342.023209 > F N CT 7617.7 > F N CT 7857.3 > M N CT 8027.78692 > F N CT 8755.950438 > M N CT 9007.7 > F N CT 9157.76987 > M N CT 9398.270953 > F N CT 9710.083037 > F N CT 9896.887277 > M N CT 10082.60082 > F N CT 10137.05244 > F N CT 10350.76186 > M N CT 14629.34508 > F N TT 4.614829254 > F N TT 5.223593964 > F N TT 6.7 > M N TT 6.7 > M N TT 7.735287229 > F N TT 13.68084134 > F N TT 14.5 > M N TT 15.3 > M N TT 16.16826703 > M N TT 19.8 > M N TT 24.51271254 > M N TT 29.92459383 > F N TT 30.3993842 > M N TT 30.57161207 > F N TT 30.72031553 > F N TT 31.8 > F N TT 34.72409961 > M N TT 37 > F N TT 38.94507607 > M N TT 39.1 > M N TT 40.9 > M N TT 41.5 > F N TT 42.36614019 > F Y CC 338.2166757 > M Y CC 345.8711007 > M Y CC 347.4659528 > F Y CC 356.3 > F Y CC 358.4 > F Y CC 360.184259 > F Y CC 453.8 > F Y CC 573.7342373 > M Y CC 962.1232959 > F Y CC 1055.9 > F Y CC 1309.532621 > F Y CC 2798.6 > F Y CC 3568.794326 > M Y CT 1.227348206 > F Y CT 2.061944986 > F Y CT 2.245592643 > M Y CT 2.454696412 > M Y CT 2.456716738 > M Y CT 4.318447391 > M Y CT 4.503098245 > M Y CT 5.873088452 > M Y CT 7.106930564 > F Y CT 7.7 > M Y CT 10.83537709 > M Y CT 11.4 > M Y CT 12.1 > M Y CT 12.62002743 > M Y CT 13.6 > F Y CT 13.7 > F Y CT 14.35562171 > F Y CT 15.9 > F Y TT 986.6755719 > F Y TT 1206.475083 > F Y TT 1237.9 > M Y TT 1254.5 > F Y TT 1303.6 > F Y TT 1573.915019 > M Y TT 1756.8 > M Y TT 1895 > M Y TT 2126.766565 > F Y TT 2149.512866 > M Y TT 3249.449945 > F Y TT 6999.3 > M Y TT 7172.479241 > M Y TT 8268.909251 > M Y TT 8544.229671 > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/ttest-in-R-tp22390889p22390889.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- ---------------------------------------------- My contact information: Tal Galili Phone number: 972-50-3373767 FaceBook: Tal Galili My Blogs: www.talgalili.com www.biostatistics.co.il [[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.