On Jan 31, 2010, at 6:05 PM, Sunny Srivastava wrote:
Dear R-Helpers,
I have a data.frame (df) and the head of data.frame looks like
ProbeUID ControlType ProbeName GeneName SystematicName
1665 1577 0 pSysX_50_22_1 pSysX_50 pSysX_50
5422 5147 0 pSysX_49_8_1 pSysX_49 pSysX_49
4042 3843 0 pSysX_51_18_1 pSysX_51 pSysX_51
3646 3466 0 sll1514_0_2 sll1514 sll1514
2946 2807 0 sll1514_0_1 sll1514 sll1514
624 582 0 pSysX_49_8_2 pSysX_49 pSysX_49
Description logFC AveExpr t P.Value adj.P.Val
1665 Unknown 4.3887 9.5662 61.038 1.0938e-08 9.4449e-05
5422 Unknown -3.5251 6.9103 -35.908 1.7596e-07 3.5912e-04
4042 Unknown 2.5302 8.7497 35.112 1.9786e-07 3.5912e-04
3646 Unknown 2.3457 11.1678 33.962 2.3549e-07 3.5912e-04
2946 Unknown 2.3151 11.3153 32.689 2.8751e-07 3.5912e-04
624 Unknown -3.6256 6.8986 -31.777 3.3333e-07 3.5912e-04
B
1665 9.8342
5422 8.1650
4042 8.0758
3646 7.9408
2946 7.7822
624 7.6622
tdf <- tapply(df$logFC, df$GeneName, mean)
ndf <- dataframe(Gnames = names(tdf), mn.logFC= tdf)
I want to "collapse" this data frame into a new data.frame so that the
df$GeneName contains no duplicate GeneNames (for eg: sll1514) AND the
df$logFC contains the average of df$logFC corresponding to these
GeneNames
(which had duplicate genenames).
I am aware of an inefficient strategy using loops, but I believe
that there
should be a way using Apply functions or may be plyr?
I am not able to think of one at the moment. Can you please help me?
David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT
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