correlation of several columns need to be calculated - r

I'm trying to get the correlation coefficient for corresponding columns of two csv files. I simply use the followings but get errors. consider each csv file has 50 columns
first values <- read.csv("")
second values <- read.csv("")
correlation.csv <- cor(x= first values , y=second values, method="spearman)
But i get x' must be numeric error!
subset of one csv file
Thanks for your help

The read.table function and all of it's derivatives return a data.frame which is an R list object. The mapply function processes lists in "parallel". If the matching columns are in the same order in the two datasets and have the same number of rows and do not have spaces in their names, it would be as simple as:
mapply(cor, first_values , second_values)
If it's more complicated tahn that, then you need to fill in the missing details with example data by editing the question (not by responding in comments.)

There must be some categorical variable in X.So you can first separate that categorical variable from X and then use X in cor() function.

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Convert range of column titles to variables for vars() function

I have a data frame with 100+ variables listed in columns, and each subject in rows. I'd like to loop through each column to perform an ANOVA, and while the loop function works fine the step I am stuck on is listing which columns to loop through. Currently I can set these by manually typing/pasting each variable name but this is obviously not practical.
Currently the loop runs through my list of vars, to get this I currently just type the name of these columns manually...
variables <- vars(height, width, strength)
Which only loops for those selected 3 out of 100+ variables that I have had to manually type in.
I had thought I could list the range of column names for dataframe df between columns 3 to 100 within the vars expression as below...
variables <- vars(colnames(df[3:100]))
This just provides one variable of the name colnames(df[3:100]).
Any ideas to avoid typing or manually inserting commas/removing quotation marks from 100+ different variable names? Thanks in advance.
Consider do.call which is shorthand for expanded list of arguments to a function. Specifically, below:
variables <- do.call(vars, colnames(df)[3:100])
is equivalent to expanded version:
variables <- vars(colnames(df)[3], colnames(df)[4], ..., colnames(df)[100])

Selecting unique values from single column of a data frame

I have a data frame consisting of five character variables which represent specific bacteria. I then have thousands of observations of each variable that all begin with the letter K. eg
x <- c(K0001,K0001,K0003,K0006)
y <- c(K0001,K0001,K0002,K0003)
z <- c(K0001,K0002,K0007,K0008)
r <- c(K0001,K0001,K0001,K0001)
o <- c(K0003,K0009,K0009,K0009)
I need to identify unique observations in the first column that don't appear in any of the remaining four columns. I have tried the approach suggested here which I think would work if I could create individual vectors using select ...
How to tell what is in one vector and not another?
but when I try to create a vector for analysis using the code ...
x <- select(data$x)
I get the error
Error in UseMethod("select_") :
no applicable method for 'select_' applied to an object of class "character
I have tried to mutate the vectors using as.factor and as.numeric but neither of these approaches work as the first gives an equivalent error as above, and as.numeric returns NAs.
Thanks in advance
The reference that you cited recommended using setdiff. The only thing that you need to do to apply that solution is to convert the four columns into one, so that it can be treated as a set. You can do that with unlist
setdiff(data$x, unlist(data[,2:5]))
"K0006"

how to make groups of variables from a data frame in R?

Dear Friends I would appreciate if someone can help me in some question in R.
I have a data frame with 8 variables, lets say (v1,v2,...,v8).I would like to produce groups of datasets based on all possible combinations of these variables. that is, with a set of 8 variables I am able to produce 2^8-1=63 subsets of variables like {v1},{v2},...,{v8}, {v1,v2},....,{v1,v2,v3},....,{v1,v2,...,v8}
my goal is to produce specific statistic based on these groupings and then compare which subset produces a better statistic. my problem is how can I produce these combinations.
thanks in advance
You need the function combn. It creates all the combinations of a vector that you provide it. For instance, in your example:
names(yourdataframe) <- c("V1","V2","V3","V4","V5","V6","V7","V8")
varnames <- names(yourdataframe)
combn(x = varnames,m = 3)
This gives you all permutations of V1-V8 taken 3 at a time.
I'll use data.table instead of data.frame;
I'll include an extraneous variable for robustness.
This will get you your subsetted data frames:
nn<-8L
dt<-setnames(as.data.table(cbind(1:100,matrix(rnorm(100*nn),ncol=nn))),
c("id",paste0("V",1:nn)))
#should be a smarter (read: more easily generalized) way to produce this,
# but it's eluding me for now...
#basically, this generates the indices to include when subsetting
x<-cbind(rep(c(0,1),each=128),
rep(rep(c(0,1),each=64),2),
rep(rep(c(0,1),each=32),4),
rep(rep(c(0,1),each=16),8),
rep(rep(c(0,1),each=8),16),
rep(rep(c(0,1),each=4),32),
rep(rep(c(0,1),each=2),64),
rep(c(0,1),128)) *
t(matrix(rep(1:nn),2^nn,nrow=nn))
#now get the correct column names for each subset
# by subscripting the nonzero elements
incl<-lapply(1:(2^nn),function(y){paste0("V",1:nn)[x[y,][x[y,]!=0]]})
#now subset the data.table for each subset
ans<-lapply(1:(2^nn),function(y){dt[,incl[[y]],with=F]})
You said you wanted some statistics from each subset, in which case it may be more useful to instead specify the last line as:
ans2<-lapply(1:(2^nn),function(y){unlist(dt[,incl[[y]],with=F])})
#exclude the first row, which is null
means<-lapply(2:(2^nn),function(y){mean(ans2[[y]])})

Retaining a value in an R dataset if it's present in another dataset

I am currently working on a code which applies to various datasets from an experiment which looks at a wide range of variables which might not be present in every repetition. My first step is to create an empty dataset with all the possible variables, and then write a function which retains columns that are in the dataset being inputted and delete the rest. Here is an example of how I want to achieve this:-
x<-c("a","b","c","d","e","f","g")
y<-c("c","f","g")
Is there a way of removing elements of x that aren't present in y and/or retaining values of x that are present in y?
For your first question: "My first step is to create an empty dataset with all the possible variables", I would use factor on the concatenation of all the vectors, for example:
all_vect = c(x, y)
possible = levels(factor(all_vect))
Then, for the second part " write a function which retains columns that are in the dataset being inputted and delete the rest", I would write:
df[,names(df)%in%possible]
As akrun wrote, use intersect(x,y) or
> x[x %in% y]

Specifying names of columns to be used in a loop R

I have a df with over 30 columns and over 200 rows, but for simplicity will use an example with 8 columns.
X1<-c(sample(100,25))
B<-c(sample(4,25,replace=TRUE))
C<-c(sample(2,25,replace =TRUE))
Y1<-c(sample(100,25))
Y2<-c(sample(100,25))
Y3<-c(sample(100,25))
Y4<-c(sample(100,25))
Y5<-c(sample(100,25))
df<-cbind(X1,B,C,Y1,Y2,Y3,Y4,Y5)
df<-as.data.frame(df)
I wrote a function that melts the data generates a plot with X1 giving the x-axis values and faceted using the values in B and C.
plotdata<-function(l){
melt<-melt(df,id.vars=c("X1","B","C"),measure.vars=l)
plot<-ggplot(melt,aes(x=X1,y=value))+geom_point()
plot2<-plot+facet_grid(B ~ C)
ggsave(filename=paste("X_vs_",l,"_faceted.jpeg",sep=""),plot=plot2)
}
I can then manually input the required Y variable
plotdata("Y1")
I don't want to generate plots for all columns. I could just type the column of interest into plotdata and then get the result, but this seems quite inelegant (and time consuming). I would prefer to be able to manually specify the columns of interest e.g. "Y1","Y3","Y4" and then write a loop function to do all those specified.
However I am new to writing for loops and can't find a way to loop in the specific column names that are required for my function to work. A standard for(i in 1:length(df)) wouldn't be appropriate because I only want to loop the user specified columns
Apologies if there is an answer to this is already in stackoverflow. I couldn't find it if there was.
Thanks to Roland for providing the following answer:
Try
for (x in c("Y1","Y3","Y4")) {plotdata(x)}
The index variable doesn't have to be numeric

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