Hello, Gabor Generally, I follow the r-help rules and provide working code snippets to illustrate the problem. In this case it was more methodological question of how to loop names in merge() function. I solved this very simply buy renaming specific columns after I have ran merge().
Thank you for your time! Best, Sergey On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 17:18, Gabor Grothendieck<ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please read the last line of every message to r-help. > In particular simplify this as much as possible and > construct some small artificial test data to illustrate. > > Anyways, func is probably not what you want. > It has the same effect as > > func <- function(x, j) x[72+j] + [144+j] > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Sergey Goriatchev<serg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> Say I have defined a convenience function in my code like this: >> >> func <- function(x, j){ >> x[168+j] <- x[72+j]+x[144+j] >> } >> >> And now I apply it to some columns in a big zoo object like this: >> >> >> for (m in 1:24){ >> combined <- merge(combined, LA1sum=apply(combined, 1, func, j=m)) >> } >> >> output of this for-loop will be zoo object with columns named >> LA1sum.1, LA1sum.2, ..., LA1.sum24. >> >> If I have a vector of names like this: >> >> namesVec <- c("LA1sum", "LP1sum", "GC1sum", "LL1sum", "LN1sum", >> "SI1sum", "LX1sum", "CO1sum", "CL1sum", "QS1sum", "HO1sum", >> "NG1sum", "XB1sum", "C.1sum", "FC1sum", "LH1sum", "LC1sum", "S.1sum", >> "W.1sum", "KW1sum", "CC1sum", "KC1sum", "CT1sum", "SB1sum") >> >> What I want is in merge() for each m the name of new column to be one >> of the elements in namesVec, that is >> for m=1 I have LA1sum=apply(...,j=1) >> for m=2 I have LP1sum=apply(...,j=2) >> etc >> >> What it the way to do this? >> >> Thank you in advance for your help! >> >> Regards, >> Sergey >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > -- I'm not young enough to know everything. /Oscar Wilde Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. /Oscar Wilde When you are finished changing, you're finished. /Benjamin Franklin Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn. /Benjamin Franklin Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. /George Patten ______________________________________________ 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.