[R] computing a subset using a loop

[jim holtman]

If you just wanted to do a boxplot of one of the subset, you would do
something like:

boxplot(df.s[["A_SEF_Abies alba"]]$age)

If you wanted to do it for all the subset, then something like:

lapply(df.s, function(.sub) boxplot(.sub$age))

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:14 AM, burton030 <burton69 at hotmail.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks I think now I understand how it works...
>
> I m using now this code for the first specie in all my transect IDs.
>
> df.s <- split(Baumdaten, list(Baumdaten$transectID, Baumdaten$Baumart), drop
> = TRUE)
> head(names(df.s), 10)
> "A_SEF_Abies alba" "A_LEF_Abies alba" "B_SEF_Abies alba" "B_LEF_Abies alba"
> "C_SEF_Abies alba" "C_LEF_Abies alba" "D_SEF_Abies alba" "D_LEF_Abies alba"
> "E_SEF_Abies alba" "E_LEF_Abies alba"
>
>
>  But can you tell me how, I can make subsets out of one of the subsets. For
> example I want boxplot for the variable age.
>
> Is it something like this? It dosent work, I know...
>
> lapply(df.s,boxplot(A_SEF_Abies alba$Baumart))
>
> Thanks in advanced
>
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