Dear R-Help:

I want to (a) subset a data.frame by several columns, (b) fit a model to each subset, and (c) store a vector of results from the fit in the columns of a data.frame. In the past, I've used "for" loops do do this. Is there a way to use "by"?

Consider the following example:

> byFits <- by(by.df, list(A=by.df$A, B=by.df$B),
+  function(data.)coef(lm(y~x, data.)))
> byFits
A: A1
B: B1
  (Intercept)             x
 3.333333e-01 -1.517960e-16
------------------------------------------------------------
A: A2
B: B1
NULL
------------------------------------------------------------
A: A1
B: B2
NULL
------------------------------------------------------------
A: A2
B: B2
 (Intercept)            x
6.666667e-01 3.282015e-16
>
>
#############################
Desired output:

data.frame(A=c("A1","A2"), B=c("B1", "B2"),
        .Intercept.=c(1/3, 2/3), x=c(-1.5e-16, 3.3e-16))

What's the simplest way to do this?
Thanks,
Spencer Graves

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