[R] Data manipulation

John Kane jrkrideau at inbox.com
Fri Mar 15 14:41:19 CET 2013


Nice. That does look like it. IOANNA?

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: nblaser at ispm.unibe.ch
> Sent: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:27:03 +0100
> To: ii54250 at msn.com, r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Data manipulation
> 
> Is this what you want to do?
> 
> D2 <- expand.grid(Class=unique(D$Class), X=unique(D$X))
> D2 <- merge(D2, D, all=TRUE)
> D2$Count[is.na(D2$Count)] <- 0
> 
> W <- aggregate(D2$Count, list(D2$Class, D2$X), "sum")
> W
> 
> Best,
> Nello
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
> On Behalf Of IOANNA
> Sent: Freitag, 15. März 2013 13:41
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Data manipulation
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> 
> 
> I would appreciate your thoughts on a seemingly simple problem. I have a
> database, where each row represent a single record. I want to aggregate
> this database so I use the aggregate command :
> 
> 
> 
> D<-read.csv("C:\\Users\\test.csv")
> 
> 
> 
> attach(D)
> 
> 
> 
> by1<-factor(Class)
> 
> by2<-factor(X)
> 
> W<-aggregate(x=Count,by=list(by1,by2),FUN="sum")
> 
> 
> 
> The results I get following the form:
> 
> 
> 
> >W
> 
>   Group.1 Group.2 x
> 
> 1       1     0.1 4
> 
> 2       2     0.1 7
> 
> 3       3     0.1 1
> 
> 4       1     0.2 3
> 
> 5       3     0.2 4
> 
> 6       3     0.3 4
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> However, what I really want is an aggregation which includes the zero
> values, i.e.:
> 
> 
> 
> >W
> 
>   Group.1 Group.2 x
> 
> 1       1     0.1 4
> 
> 2       2     0.1 7
> 
> 3       3     0.1 1
> 
> 4       1     0.2 3
> 
>         2     0.2 0
> 
> 5       3     0.2 4
> 
> 1        0.3 0
> 
> 2        0.3 0
> 
> 6       3     0.3 4
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> How can I achieve what I want?
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ioanna
> 
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