I have a dataframe with multiple rows. I want to call a function is using any two rows. For example, Let's say I have this data and this myFunc which accepts two args:
df <- data.frame(q1=c(1,2,5), q2=c(5,5,5), q3=c(5,2,5), q4=c(5,5,5), q5=c(2,3,1))
df
q1 q2 q3 q4 q5
1 1 5 5 5 2
2 2 5 2 5 3
3 5 5 5 5 1
myFunc<-function(a,b) sum((df[a,]==df[b,] & df[a,]==5)*1)
A want to apply myFunc for row 1 and 2, myFunc(1,2) and I expect 2, myFunc compute how many "5" are have in common under the same column, between row 1 and 2.
Since I have thousands of rows, and I want to match all pairs, I want do this without writing a for loop, maybe with the do call or apply function family.
I tried this:
a=c(1,2) # match the row 1 and 2
b=c(2,3) # match the row 2 and 3
my_list=list(a,b)
do.call("myFunc", my_list)
But I got 4, instead of 2 and 2, any ideas?
The question recently changed. My understanding of it is that the input should be a list of pairs of row numbers and the output should be the same length as that list such that each component of the output is the number of columns with both entries equal to 5 in both rows defined by the corresponding pair. Thus for df shown in the question the list L shown below would correspond to c(myFunc(1, 2), myFunc(2, 3)) where myFunc is as defined in the question.
L <- list(1:2, 2:3)
myFunc2 <- function(x) myFunc(x[1], x[2])
sapply(L, myFunc2)
## [1] 2 2
Note that *1 in myFunc is unnecessary since sum will coerce a logical argument to numeric.
An alternative might be to specify the first row numbers as a vector and the second row numbers as another vector. In terms of L that would be a <- sapply(L, "[", 1); b <- sapply(L, "[", 2). Then use mapply.
a <- c(1, 2) # L[[1]][1], L[[2]][1]
b <- c(2, 3) # L[[1]][2], L[[2]][2]
mapply(myFunc, a, b)
## [1] 2 2
Try passing the rows instead of the row index
df <- data.frame(q1=c(1,2,5), q2=c(5,5,5), q3=c(5,2,5), q4=c(5,5,5), q5=c(2,3,1))
myFunc<-function(a,b) sum((a==b & a==5)*1)
myFunc(df[1,],df[2,])
This worked for me (returned 2)
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does anyone know how to have a row in R that is calculated from another row automatically? i.e.
lets say in excel, i want to make a row C, which is made up of (B2/B1)
e.g. C1 = B2/B1
C2 = B3/B2
...
Cn = Cn+1/Cn
but in excel, we only need to do one calculation then drag it down. how do we do it in R?
In R you work with columns as vectors so the operations are vectorized. The calculations as described could be implemented by the following commands, given a data.frame df (i.e. a table) and the respective column names as mentioned:
df["C1"] <- df["B2"]/df["B1"]
df["C2"] <- df["B3"]/df["B2"]
In R you usually would name the columns according to the content they hold. With that, you refer to the columns by their name, although you can also address the first column as df[, 1], the first row as df[1, ] and so on.
EDIT 1:
There are multiple ways - and certainly some more elegant ways to get it done - but for understanding I kept it in simple base R:
Example dataset for demonstration:
df <- data.frame("B1" = c(1, 2, 3),
"B2" = c(2, 4, 6),
"B3" = c(4, 8, 12))
Column calculation:
for (i in 1:ncol(df)-1) {
col_name <- paste0("C", i)
df[col_name] <- df[, i+1]/df[, i]
}
Output:
B1 B2 B3 C1 C2
1 1 2 4 2 2
2 2 4 8 2 2
3 3 6 12 2 2
So you iterate through the available columns B1/B2/B3. Dynamically create a column name in every iteration, based on the number of the current iteration, and then calculate the respective column contents.
EDIT 2:
Rowwise, as you actually meant it apparently, works similarly:
a <- c(10,15,20, 1)
df <- data.frame(a)
for (i in 1:nrow(df)) {
df$b[i] <- df$a[i+1]/df$a[i]
}
Output:
a b
1 10 1.500000
2 15 1.333333
3 20 0.050000
4 1 NA
You can do this just using vectors, without a for loop.
a <- c(10,15,20, 1)
df <- data.frame(a)
df$b <- c(df$a[-1], 0) / df$a
print(df)
a b
1 10 1.500000
2 15 1.333333
3 20 0.050000
4 1 0.000000
Explanation:
In the example data, df$a is the vector 10 15 20 1.
df$a[-1] is the same vector with its first element removed, 15 20 1.
And using c() to add a new element to the end so that the vector has the same lenght as before:
c(df$a[-1],0) which is 15 20 1 0
What we want for column b is this vector divided by the original df$a.
So:
df$b <- c(df$a[-1], 0) / df$a
I have written a function and am trying to iterate so that each value from a list becomes the input to the function once.
repeat100 <- function(B) {
se100 <- replicate(100, bootandse(B))
bandse <- data.frame("B" = B, "SE" = se100)
}
The output of this function is a dataframe with one column for the value of B that was inputted and another column for the SE. Like this, but with 100 rows.
B SE
1 2
1 4
1 3
I have an object B with several values. I am trying to iterate repeat100() over each value of B.
B <- c(1, 4, 6, 20, 30)
How can I get the resulting output to be a dataframe that has the output of each repeat100() for each value of B stacked like this?
B SE
1 2
1 3
1 2
4 5
4 3
4 2
Use lapply with rbind to combine the data in one dataframe.
result <- do.call(rbind, lapply(B, repeat100))
Or purrr::map_df which is shorter.
purrr::map_df(B, repeat100)
We can use rbindlist from data.table
library(data.table)
rbindlist(lapply(B, repeat100))
Let's say i have the following list of df's (in reality i have many more dfs).
seq <- c("12345","67890")
li <- list()
for (i in 1:length(seq)){
li[[i]] <- list()
names(li)[i] <- seq[i]
li[[i]] <- data.frame(A = c(1,2,3),
B = c(2,4,6))
}
What i would like to do is calculate the mean within the same cell position between the lists, keeping the same amount of rows and columns as the original lists. How could i do this? I believe I can use the apply() function, but i am unsure how to do this.
The expected output (not surprising):
A B
1 1 2
2 2 4
3 3 6
In reality, the values within each list are not necessarily the same.
If there are no NAs, then we can Reduce to get the sum of observations for each element and divide by the length of the list
Reduce(`+`, li)/length(li)
# A B
#1 1 2
#2 2 4
#3 3 6
If there are NA values, then it may be better to use mean (which has na.rm argument). For this, we can convert it to array and then use apply
apply(array(unlist(li), dim = c(dim(li[[1]]), length(li))), c(1, 2), mean)
An equivalent option in tidyverse would be
library(tidyverse)
reduce(li, `+`)/length(li)
I have a table like:
a
n_msi2010 n_msi2011
1 -0.122876 1.818750
2 1.328930 0.931426
3 -0.111653 4.400060
4 1.222900 4.500450
5 3.604160 6.110930
I would like to merge these two columns into one column to obtain (I don't want to keep column names):
a
n_msi2010
1 -0.122876
2 1.328930
3 -0.111653
4 1.222900
5 3.604160
6 1.818750
7 0.931426
8 4.400060
9 4.500450
10 6.110930
When I am using prefabricated data like
x <- cbind(c(1, 2, 3), c(4, 5, 6))
colnames(x)<-c("a","b")
c(t(x))
# 1 4 2 5 3 6
c((x))
# 1 2 3 4 5 6
the column merging works fine. Only in "a" exemple id doesn't work and it creates 2 separate vectors. I don't really understand why. Any help? Thanks
It seems like your question is about column versus row order vector creation from a data.frame.
Using t() on a data.frame converts the data.frame to a matrix, and using c() on the matrix removes its dimensions.
With that knowledge, you can try:
# create a vector of values, column by column
c(as.matrix(a)) # you are missing the `as.matrix` in your current approach
# create a vector of values, row by row
c(t(a)) # you already know this works
Other approaches to get the "column by column" result would be:
unlist(a, use.names = FALSE)
stack(a)[, "values"] # add `drop = FALSE` if you want to retain a data.frame
Not a elegant way but it seems it can combine two or several columns to one.
n_msi2010 <- 1:5
n_msi2011 <- 6:10
a <- data.frame(n_msi2010, n_msi2011)
vector <- vector()
for (i in 1:dim(a)[2]){
vector <- append(vector, as.vector(a[,i]))
vector
}
You may do
as.matrix(vector) or data.frame(vector)
I am practicing using the apply function in R, and so I'm writing a simple function to apply to a dataframe.
I have a dataframe with 2 columns.
V1 V2
1 3
2 4
I decided to do some basic arithmetic and have the answer in the 3rd column, specifically, I want to multiply the first column by 2 and the second column by 3, then sum them.
V1 V2 V3
1 3 11
2 4 16
Here's what I was thinking:
mydf <- as.data.frame(matrix(c(1:4),ncol=2,nrow=2))
some_function <- function(some_df) {some_df[,1]*2 +
some_df[,2]*3}
mydf <- apply(mydf ,2, some_function)
But what is wrong with my arguments to the function? R is giving me an error regarding the dimension of the dataframe. Why?
Three things wrong:
1) apply "loops" a vector of either each column or row, so you just address the name [1] not [,1]
2) you need to run by row MARGIN=1, not 2
3) you need to cbind the result, because apply doesn't append, so you're overwriting the vector
mydf <- as.data.frame(matrix(c(1:4),ncol=2,nrow=2))
some_function <- function(some_df) {some_df[1]*2 +
some_df[2]*3}
mydf <- cbind(mydf,V3=apply(mydf ,1, some_function))
# V1 V2 V3
#1 1 3 11
#2 2 4 16
but probably easier just to do the vector math:
mydf$V3<-mydf[,1]*2 + mydf[,2]*3
because vector math is one of the greatest things about R