Hi everybody! To use some functions, I have to transform my dataset into a list, where each element contains one group, and I have to prepare a list for each variable I have (altogether I have 15 variables, and many entries per factor level)
Here is some part of my dataset: SPECSHOR BONE Asfc Smc epLsar cotau tx 454.390369 29.261638 0.001136 cotau tx 117.445711 4.291884 0.00056 cotau tx 381.024682 15.313017 0.002324 cotau tx 159.081789 18.134533 0.000462 cotau tm 160.641503 6.411332 0.000571 cotau tm 79.238023 3.828254 0.001182 cotau tm 143.20655 11.921899 0.000192 cotau tm 115.476996 33.116386 0.000417 cotau tm 594.256234 72.538131 0.000477 eqgre tx 188.261324 8.279096 0.000777 eqgre tx 152.444216 2.596325 0.001022 eqgre tx 256.601507 8.279096 0.000566 eqgre tx 250.816445 18.134533 0.000535 eqgre tx 272.396711 24.492879 0.000585 eqgre tm 172.63264 4.291884 0.001781 eqgre tm 189.441097 14.425498 0.001347 eqgre tm 170.743788 13.564472 0.000602 eqgre tm 158.960849 10.385299 0.001189 eqgre tm 80.972408 3.828254 0.000644 gicam tx 294.494001 9.656738 0.000524 gicam tx 267.126765 19.128024 0.000647 gicam tx 81.888658 4.782006 0.000492 gicam tx 168.32908 12.729939 0.001097 gicam tx 123.296056 7.007427 0.000659 gicam tm 94.264887 18.134533 0.000752 gicam tm 54.317395 3.828254 0.00038 gicam tm 55.978883 17.167534 0.000141 gicam tm 279.597993 15.313017 0.000398 gicam tm 288.262556 18.134533 0.001043 What I do next is: ---- list_Asfc <- list() list_Asfc[[1]] <- ssfamed[ssfamed$SPECSHOR=='cotau'&ssfamed$BONE=='tx', 3] list_Asfc[[2]] <- ssfamed[ssfamed$SPECSHOR=='cotau'&ssfamed$BONE=='tm', 3] ---- And so on for each level of SPECSHOR and BONE I'm stuck on 2 parts: - in a loop or something similar, I would like the 1st element of the list to be filled by the values for the 1st variable with the first level of my factors (i.e. cotau + tx), and then the 2nd element with the 2nd level (i.e. cotau + tm) and so on. As shown above, I know how to do it if I enter manually the different levels, but I have no idea which function I should use so that each combination of factor will be used. See what I mean? - I would then like to run it in a loop or something for each variable. It is by itself not so complicated, but I don't know how to give the correct name to my list. I want the list containing the data for Asfc to be named "list_Asfc". Here is what I tried: ---- seq.num <- c(seq(3,5,1)) #the indexes of the variables for(i in 1:length(seq.num)) { k <- seq.num[i] name.num <- names(ssfamed)[k] list <- list() list[[1]] <- ssfamed[ssfamed$SPECSHOR=='cotau'&ssfamed$BONE=='tx', i] list[[2]] <- ssfamed[ssfamed$SPECSHOR=='cotau'&ssfamed$BONE=='tm', i] names(list) <- c("cotau_tx", "cotau_tm") #I have more and the 1st question should help me on that too } ---- After names(list) I need to insert something like: name_list <- list But I don't know how to give it the correct name. How do we change the name of an object? Or am I on the wrong path? Thank you in advance for your help. Ivan PS: if necessary: under Windows XP, R2.10. [[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.