R 3.0.2 - How to create intervals and group another variable in those intervals?

n <- 1000
x <- data.frame(speed = runif(n, 0, 85.53)

# create interval for speed
int <- seq(0, max(x) + 4.5, by = 4.5)
# split the data and find average of spacing
tapply(x$spacing, cut(x$speed, int), mean)

I have two columns for speed ('Smoothed velocity') and Spacing. What I want to do is to first create the intervals of speed (minimum value=0, max value= 85.53), group the Spacing values falling in a particular Speed interval, find the average of the Spacing for an interval and finally plot the average spacing of each interval against the mid-point of the Speed interval. I want to have fixed intervals of 4.5 feet per second, i.e. 0-4.5, 4.5-9,......xx-85.53.After hours of search I found a function for creating intervals called classIntervals() but I can't figure out how to create fixed intervals of 4.5. Here is what I tried:classIntervals(s21[,'Smoothed velocity'], style='fixed', fixedBreaks=4.5)But the results were unexpected and there was a Warning message:In classIntervals(s21[, "Smoothed velocity"], style = "fixed", fixedBreaks = 4.5) :
  variable range greater than fixedBreaksEven after intervals are created, I need to group spacing and find the avg. for every interval. How can I do this? I have tried what I could, please help

Umair Durrani

email: umairdurrani at outlook.com

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Is this what you are after:

n <- 1000
x <- data.frame(speed = runif(n, 0, 85.53)

+             , spacing = rnorm(n)
+             )

# create interval for speed
int <- seq(0, max(x) + 4.5, by = 4.5)
# split the data and find average of spacing
tapply(x$spacing, cut(x$speed, int), mean)

    (0,4.5]     (4.5,9]    (9,13.5]   (13.5,18]   (18,22.5]
(22.5,27]   (27,31.5]   (31.5,36]
 0.27840783 -0.08349567 -0.10659408 -0.01476840 -0.08773255
-0.06643826  0.21873016  0.17627232
  (36,40.5]   (40.5,45]   (45,49.5]   (49.5,54]   (54,58.5]
(58.5,63]   (63,67.5]   (67.5,72]
-0.16568350 -0.15458191 -0.04909331 -0.01179396  0.25022296
-0.27553812 -0.14927483 -0.21000177
  (72,76.5]   (76.5,81]   (81,85.5]
-0.09884137 -0.08459709  0.02864456

plotting is left as an exercise for the reader, but given the averages
above, you can find the midpoints easily.

Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru

What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:48 AM, umair durrani <umairdurrani at outlook.com> wrote:

I have two columns for speed ('Smoothed velocity') and Spacing. What I want to do is to first create the intervals of speed (minimum value=0, max value= 85.53), group the Spacing values falling in a particular Speed interval, find the average of the Spacing for an interval and finally plot the average spacing of each interval against the mid-point of the Speed interval. I want to have fixed intervals of 4.5 feet per second, i.e. 0-4.5, 4.5-9,......xx-85.53.After hours of search I found a function for creating intervals called classIntervals() but I can't figure out how to create fixed intervals of 4.5. Here is what I tried:classIntervals(s21[,'Smoothed velocity'], style='fixed', fixedBreaks=4.5)But the results were unexpected and there was a Warning message:In classIntervals(s21[, "Smoothed velocity"], style = "fixed", fixedBreaks = 4.5) :
  variable range greater than fixedBreaksEven after intervals are created, I need to group spacing and find the avg. for every interval. How can I do this? I have tried what I could, please help

Umair Durrani

email: umairdurrani at outlook.com

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