Try something like this: # get column numbers of 'wk' columns col.num <- grep("^wk", names(yourDF)) # split out only the 'wk' columns result <- lapply(split(yourDF[, col.num], paste(yourDF$x2, paste(yourDF$x3))), function(.mrg){ colSums(.mrg) })
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Vadlamani, Satish {FLNA} <satish.vadlam...@fritolay.com> wrote: > Hi: > > Suppose that I have a data frame as below > > x1 x2 x3 ... x10 wk1 wk2 ... Wk208 (these are the column names) > > For each record, x1, x2, x3 ... x10 are attributes. and wk1, wk2, ..., wk208 > are the sales recoreded for this attribute combination. Suppose that now, > that I want to do the following > > 1. Merge the data frame so that I have a new data frame grouped by values of > x2 and x3 (for example). That is, if two records have the same values of x2 > and x3, they should be summed. > > I tried to look at merge, tapply etc. but did not see a fit with I want to do > above. > > Thanks in advance. > > Satish > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.