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Message-ID: <4B64653A-D3A3-438C-91C9-B4D949ADA94B@comcast.net>
Date: 2013-01-15T22:10:53Z
From: David Winsemius
Subject: grouping elements of a data frame
In-Reply-To: <C8F2D0AD-7B49-41DF-8353-8A027A1FD5F7@outlook.com>

On Jan 15, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Nuri Alpay Temiz wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have a question on selecting and grouping elements of a data frame. For example:
> 
> A.df<- [ a c 0.9
>             b  x 0.8
>             b z 0.5
>             c y 0.9
>             c x 0.7
>             c z 0.6]

That is not R code. Matlab?, Python? 

> 
> 
> I want to create a list of a data frame that gives me the unique values of column 1 of A.df so that i can create intersects. That is:
> 
> B[a]<- [ c 0.9]
> 
> B[b]<- [ x 0.8
>             z 0.5]
> 
> B[c]<- [ y 0.9
>             x 0.7
>             z 0.6]
> 
> 
> B[c] n B[b] <- c(x,z)
> 

That's some sort of coded message? We are supposed to know what the "n" operation will do when assigned a vector?


Assuming your really do have a dataframe named B:

intersect(B$c, B$b)

Please code up examples in R in the future.

-- 

David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA