Re: [R] Help with aggregate syntax for a multi-column function please.

2011-08-02 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi: Another way to do this is to use one of the summarization packages. The following uses the plyr package. The first step is to create a function that takes a data frame as input and outputs either a data frame or a scalar. In this case, the function returns a scalar, but if you want to carry a

Re: [R] Help with aggregate syntax for a multi-column function please.

2011-08-02 Thread Jean V Adams
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[R] Help with aggregate syntax for a multi-column function please.

2011-08-02 Thread Michael Karol
Dear R-experts: I am using a function called AUC whose arguments are data, time, id, and dv. data is the name of the dataframe, time is the independent variable column name, id is the subject id and dv is the dependent variable. The function computes area under the curve by trapezoidal