Re: [R] Centering data frame by factor

2011-07-19 Thread David Winsemius
On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:58 AM, William Dunlap wrote: -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org ] On Behalf Of Daniel Malter Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 1:51 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Centering data frame by factor

Re: [R] Centering data frame by factor

2011-07-19 Thread William Dunlap
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Daniel Malter > Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 1:51 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Centering data frame by factor > > > P

Re: [R] Centering data frame by factor

2011-07-19 Thread David Winsemius
On Jul 19, 2011, at 4:50 AM, Daniel Malter wrote: P1-tapply(P1,Experiment,mean)[Experiment] Another way would be with ave(), but I discovered that it does not accept subsidiary arguments and does not issue warnings either, so this works: > with(dfrm, ave(P1, Experiment, FUN=function(x

Re: [R] Centering data frame by factor

2011-07-19 Thread ronny
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[R] Centering data frame by factor

2011-07-19 Thread ronny
Hi, I would like to center P1 and P2 of the following data frame by the factor "Experiment", i.e. substruct from each value the average of its experiment, and keep the original data structure, i.e. the experiment and the group of each value. RAW= data.frame("Experiment"=c(2,2,2,1,1,1),"Group"=c(

Re: [R] Centering data frame by factor

2011-07-19 Thread Daniel Malter
P1-tapply(P1,Experiment,mean)[Experiment] HTH, Daniel ronny wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to center P1 and P2 of the following data frame by the factor > "Experiment", i.e. substruct from each value the average of its > experiment, and keep the original data structure, i.e. the experiment a