Hi,
Your question is not clear.
Suppose if you want to find the highest two contributions for each candidate:
dat1<-read.table(text="
????????????????? AL? AR? CA? NY
Doug??? 250 250 250? NA
Jennifer? 20 340 300 100
Michele? 250 500 250? 60
Obama??? 15? 45 520 600
",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE,sep="")
res1<-unlist(lapply(split(dat1,rownames(dat1)),function(x) tail(apply(x,1,sort),2)))
nam1<-unlist(lapply(lapply(split(dat1,rownames(dat1)),function(x) tail(apply(x,1,sort),2)),function(x) dimnames(x)[1]),use.names=F)
names(res1)<-paste(names(res1),nam1,sep="_")
names(res1)<-gsub("\\d+","",names(res1))
res1
? #? Doug_AR???? Doug_CA Jennifer_CA Jennifer_AR? Michele_CA? Michele_AR
??? # ?? 250???????? 250???????? 300???????? 340???????? 250???????? 500
? # Obama_CA??? Obama_NY
??? # ?? 520???????? 600
#Contribution for Obama
res1[grep("Obama",names(res1))]
#Obama_CA Obama_NY
? # ? 520????? 600
A.K.
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From: noobmin <pseudovoid at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [R] How to use tapply with more than one variables grouped
To take this example I reduced the number of records absurdly. In the
original database there are 48 000 candidates and dozens of states. There is
no way to analyze data visually. I would not put 400 mb of tables here. But
based on the example how could list the states where obama received more
contribution?
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