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Split

The document discusses the R split function which splits a vector or data frame into groups based on factors. It provides examples of splitting a numeric vector and the airquality data frame by the Month factor. It also demonstrates splitting a vector on more than one factor level and the use of drop = TRUE to remove empty factor levels.

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Split

The document discusses the R split function which splits a vector or data frame into groups based on factors. It provides examples of splitting a numeric vector and the airquality data frame by the Month factor. It also demonstrates splitting a vector on more than one factor level and the use of drop = TRUE to remove empty factor levels.

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split

split takes a vector or other objects and splits it into groups determined by a factor or list of

factors.
> str(split)
function (x, f, drop = FALSE, ...)

x is a vector (or list) or data frame


f is a factor (or coerced to one) or a list of factors
drop indicates whether empty factors levels should be dropped

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> x <- c(rnorm(10), runif(10), rnorm(10, 1))
> f <- gl(3, 10)
> split(x, f)
$1
[1] -0.8493038 -0.5699717 -0.8385255 -0.8842019
[5] 0.2849881 0.9383361 -1.0973089 2.6949703
[9] 1.5976789 -0.1321970
$2
[1] 0.09479023 0.79107293 0.45857419 0.74849293
[5] 0.34936491 0.35842084 0.78541705 0.57732081
[9] 0.46817559 0.53183823
$3
[1] 0.6795651 0.9293171 1.0318103 0.4717443
[5] 2.5887025 1.5975774 1.3246333 1.4372701

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A common idiom is split followed by an lapply.
> lapply(split(x, f), mean)
$1
[1] 0.1144464
$2
[1] 0.5163468
$3
[1] 1.246368

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Splitting a Data Frame


> library(datasets)
> head(airquality)
Ozone Solar.R Wind Temp Month Day
1
41
190 7.4
67
5
1
2
36
118 8.0
72
5
2
3
12
149 12.6
74
5
3
4
18
313 11.5
62
5
4
5
NA
NA 14.3
56
5
5
6
28
NA 14.9
66
5
6

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Splitting a Data Frame


> s <- split(airquality, airquality$Month)
> lapply(s, function(x) colMeans(x[, c("Ozone", "Solar.R", "Wind")]))
$5
Ozone Solar.R
Wind
NA
NA 11.62258
$6
Ozone
Solar.R
Wind
NA 190.16667 10.26667
$7
Ozone
Solar.R
Wind
NA 216.483871
8.941935

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Splitting a Data Frame


> sapply(s, function(x) colMeans(x[, c("Ozone", "Solar.R", "Wind")]))
5
6
7
8
9
Ozone
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
Solar.R
NA 190.16667 216.483871
NA 167.4333
Wind
11.62258 10.26667
8.941935 8.793548 10.1800
> sapply(s, function(x) colMeans(x[, c("Ozone", "Solar.R", "Wind")],
na.rm = TRUE))
5
6
7
8
9
Ozone
23.61538
29.44444
59.115385
59.961538
31.44828
Solar.R
181.29630
190.16667
216.483871
171.857143 167.43333
Wind
11.62258
10.26667
8.941935
8.793548
10.18000

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Splitting on More than One Level


> x <- rnorm(10)
> f1 <- gl(2, 5)
> f2 <- gl(5, 2)
> f1
[1] 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2
Levels: 1 2
> f2
[1] 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5
Levels: 1 2 3 4 5
> interaction(f1, f2)
[1] 1.1 1.1 1.2 1.2 1.3 2.3 2.4 2.4 2.5 2.5
10 Levels: 1.1 2.1 1.2 2.2 1.3 2.3 1.4 ... 2.5

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Splitting on More than One Level


Interactions can create empty levels.
> str(split(x, list(f1, f2)))
List of 10
$ 1.1: num [1:2] -0.378 0.445
$ 2.1: num(0)
$ 1.2: num [1:2] 1.4066 0.0166
$ 2.2: num(0)
$ 1.3: num -0.355
$ 2.3: num 0.315
$ 1.4: num(0)
$ 2.4: num [1:2] -0.907 0.723
$ 1.5: num(0)
$ 2.5: num [1:2] 0.732 0.360

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Empty levels can be dropped.
> str(split(x, list(f1, f2), drop = TRUE))
List of 6
$ 1.1: num [1:2] -0.378 0.445
$ 1.2: num [1:2] 1.4066 0.0166
$ 1.3: num -0.355
$ 2.3: num 0.315
$ 2.4: num [1:2] -0.907 0.723
$ 2.5: num [1:2] 0.732 0.360

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