Hi you can use data.frame data.frame(dat, dat[,1:3]^2)
and you can set names afterwards by names function. Cheers Petr > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of C W > Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2017 3:22 AM > To: r-help <r-help@r-project.org> > Subject: Re: [R] How create columns for squared values from previous > columns? > > I came up with this solution, > > > cbind(dat, dat[, 1:3]^2) > X1 X2 X3 X4 X5 X1 > X2 X3 > 1 0.72776481 -1.1332612 -1.9857503 0.46189400 -0.09016379 0.529641625 > 1.28428102 3.9432044 > 2 0.05126592 0.2858707 0.9075806 1.27582713 -0.49438507 0.002628194 > 0.08172203 0.8237026 > 3 -0.40430146 0.5457195 -1.1924042 0.15025594 1.99710475 0.163459669 > 0.29780978 1.4218277 > 4 1.40746971 -1.2279416 0.3296075 0.84411774 -0.52371619 1.980970990 > 1.50784058 0.1086411 > 5 -0.53841150 0.4750082 -0.4705148 0.05591914 -0.31503500 0.289886944 > 0.22563275 0.2213842 > 6 0.90691210 0.7247171 0.8244184 0.73328097 -1.05284737 0.822489552 > 0.52521494 0.6796657 > > But, you would NOT ONLY get undesired variable names, BUT ALSO > duplicated names. I suppose I can use paste() to solve that? > > Any better ideas? > > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 8:57 PM, C W <tmrs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Dear R list, > > > > I am am a little unsure what is the best way to approach this. I > > suppose I have > > > > > dat <- matrix(rnorm(30), ncol = 5) > > > dat <- data.frame(dat) > > > dat > > X1 X2 X3 X4 X5 > > 1 -1.13999917 -0.87868106 -0.33000492 1.5241765 -0.92483388 > > 2 -0.56168006 -0.08837883 1.96237792 -0.5335615 0.02880586 > > 3 0.82800071 -1.89965562 -0.05438815 -0.9162857 -0.57470053 > > 4 -0.03218412 -0.23119263 -1.10671765 -0.2885518 -0.30953951 > > 5 1.70525779 -0.93854817 -1.05932636 -0.2983139 -0.21980145 > > 6 1.19047531 0.38301678 -0.20830015 -0.6668266 0.82578534 > > > > Suppose I want to add columns X6, X7, X8, where > > X6 = X1^2 > > X7 = X2^2 > > X8 = X3^2 > > > > I am thinking of using apply(), but df asks for column names, what's a > > quick way to generate names on the fly? > > > > Thank you very much! > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ________________________________ Tento e-mail a jakékoliv k němu připojené dokumenty jsou důvěrné a jsou určeny pouze jeho adresátům. 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