David.
>
> -- Gerrit
>
>
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Vassilis wrote:
>
>>
>> I would like to de-mean the 'vector' column of the following
>> dataframe by
>> factor:
>>
>> set.seed(5444)
>> vector <- rnorm(1:10)
>> factor <- rep(1:2,5)
>> test.df <- data.frame(factor, vector)
>>
>> which is:
>>
>> factor vector
>> 1 1 -0.4963935
>> 2 2 -2.0768182
>> 3 1 -1.5822224
>> 4 2 0.8025474
>> 5 1 0.3504199
>> 6 2 0.2358464
>> 7 1 -0.3989443
>> 8 2 -0.3692544
>> 9 1 -0.3174586
>> 10 2 1.4305431
>>
>> Using the by() command, I get:
>>
>>> by(test.df$vector, test.df$factor, function(x) {x - mean(x)})
>> test.df$factor: 1
>> [1] -0.007473699 -1.093302612 0.839339673 0.089975488 0.171461151
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> test.df$factor: 2
>> [1] -2.0813911 0.7979745 0.2312735 -0.3738272 1.4259702
>>>
>>
>> My question is: Is there a way to have this output put back to the
>> dataframe? I.e to make by(), or some other command, return me a
>> vector of
>> length 10 whose values x' correspond to x'_1 = x_1 - mean(x |
>> factor1), x'_2
>> = x_2 - mean(x | factor2),...
>>
>> Thanks in advance for the help, and apologies for the poor notation.
>>
>> Vassilis
>>
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