extracting one element of correlation matrices from a list poroduced by the 'by' statement

Great! Thank you very much. Looks R has unlimited possibilities.
Regards,
Ashraf

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From: pd at pubhealth.ku.dk [mailto:pd at pubhealth.ku.dk] On Behalf Of Peter
Dalgaard
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 4:11 PM
To: Mohammad A. Chaudhary
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] extracting one element of correlation matrices from a
list poroduced by the 'by' statement

"Mohammad A. Chaudhary" <mchaudha at jhsph.edu> writes:

I am producing 2X2 correlation matrices by a class variable. I need to
extract a vector of correlation coefficients only. I am doing that in

a

loop (see below) but I am sure there would be a simpler way. Please
help!

 

by(d1[,c(2,3)],d1[,1],cor)

.....

          c         e

c 1.0000000 0.3746597

e 0.3746597 1.0000000

***********************************************

t<- rep(0,10)

ind=0

for(r in 1:10) {

+    ind=ind+1 

+    t[ind] <- by(d1[,c(2,3)],d1[,1],cor)[[r]][1,2]

+                } 

t   

[1] 0.1972309 0.2469402 0.3177058 0.3492043 0.3385547 0.2876410
0.3374766 0.4380190 0.3452468 0.3746597

One way could be 

 sapply(by(d1[2:3],d1[,1],cor),"[",1,2)

another is 

 by(d1[2:3],d1[,1],function(f)cor(f)[1,2])

or, (this possibility never occurred to me before)

 by(d1[2:3],d1[,1], with, cor(c,e))


You might want to wrap the last two in a c() construct but they
actually are vectors already, they just don't look it when print.by
has done its work.

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