I think the problem is that there is no value for RST in Emp.Et.Em. -Ista
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:57 PM, LCOG1 <jr...@lcog.org> wrote: > > Hello all, > I am trying to use the tapply function to sum some values and change the > column names of the resulting vector. > > I input > Emp Et > 1 10565 ACC > 2 7515 ADM > 3 625 AGF > 4 6243 CNS > 5 12721 EDU > 6 3924 FIN > 7 18140 HLH > 8 3686 INF > 9 15841 MFG > 10 243 MIN > 11 1864 MNG > 12 4664 OSV > 13 5496 PRF > 14 4988 PUB > 15 2166 REC > 16 2153 REL > 17 16082 RTL > 18 3582 TRN > 19 757 UTL > 20 5818 WHL > > and i want to aggregate certain types based on the following matches > > Et Em > 1 AGF AFREMP > 2 MIN MINEMP > 3 UTL TCPEMP > 4 CNS CONEMP > 5 MFG MFGEMP > 6 WHL WSTEMP > 7 RTL RETEMP > 8 TRN TCPEMP > 9 INF SVCEMP > 10 FIN FINEMP > 11 REL FINEMP > 12 PRF SVCEMP > 13 MNG FINEMP > 14 ADM SVCEMP > 15 EDU SVCEMP > 16 HLH SVCEMP > 17 REC SVCEMP > 18 ACC SVCEMP > 19 RST SVCEMP > 20 OSV SVCEMP > 21 PUB GVTEMP > > but the last value in my result is NA when it should be 5818. so my actual > result is > AFREMP CONEMP FINEMP GVTEMP MFGEMP MINEMP RETEMP SVCEMP TCPEMP WSTEMP > 625 6243 7941 4988 15841 243 3582 81035 > 6575 NA > > I have rechecks to make sure there isnt a simple labeling error but i havent > found anything. Below is test code. > > Et<-c("AGF","MIN","UTL","CNS","MFG","WHL","RTL","TRN","INF","FIN","REL", > "PRF","MNG","ADM","EDU","HLH","REC","ACC","RST","OSV","PUB") > > Em<-c("AFREMP","MINEMP","TCPEMP","CONEMP","MFGEMP","WSTEMP","RETEMP","TCPEMP", > "SVCEMP","FINEMP","FINEMP","SVCEMP","FINEMP","SVCEMP","SVCEMP","SVCEMP","SVCEMP", > "SVCEMP","SVCEMP","SVCEMP","GVTEMP") > > EtToEm..<-data.frame(Et,Em) > > Emp<-c(10565,7515,625,6243,12721,3924,18140,3686,15841,243,1864,4664,5496,4988 > ,2166,2153,16082,3582,757,5818) > > Et.t<-c("ACC","ADM","AGF","CNS","EDU","FIN","HLH","INF","MFG","MIN" > ,"MNG","OSV" > ,"PRF","PUB","REC","REL","RTL","TRN","UTL","WHL") > > Emp.Et<-data.frame(Emp,Et.t) > names(Emp.Et)[2]<-"Et" > > Emp.Et.Em<-as.vector(Emp.Et$Em) > names(Emp.Et.Em) <- Emp.Et$Et > > EmpEt.Em <- tapply(Emp.Et.Em[EtToEm..$Et], EtToEm..$Em, sum) > > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/Issue-using-tapply-tp1289681p1289681.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. > -- Ista Zahn Graduate student University of Rochester Department of Clinical and Social Psychology http://yourpsyche.org ______________________________________________ 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.