Hi,
thank a lot for your answers!
As other people get the correct result but I get this
mysterious result with this script even after running
it on a freshly started R, it must be a problem with
my particular R setup. I'll try updating.
Thanks for the help, now I know where I have to
search.
Werner
--- Søren Højsgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
schrieb:
> I'd be glad to help, but I don't think I understand
> the problem. Here's what I get:
> > x <-
>
as.data.frame(matrix(ncol=3,seq(1,12),dimnames=list(c(),c("hh","total","total.inf"))))
> > x
> hh total total.inf
> 1 1 5 9
> 2 2 6 10
> 3 3 7 11
> 4 4 8 12
> > summaryBy(total+total.inf~hh,x,FUN=sum)
> hh total.sum total.inf.sum
> 1 1 5 9
> 2 2 6 10
> 3 3 7 11
> 4 4 8 12
>
> Looks as expected to me.
>
> Regards
> Søren Højsgaard
>
>
>
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> af Werner Wernersen
> Sendt: 27. august 2007 15:21
> Til: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Emne: Re: [R] Column naming mystery
>
> Sorry that the problem description was not
> sufficient.
> Here is a self-contained code replicating the
> problem:
>
> require(doBy)
> x <-
>
as.data.frame(matrix(ncol=3,seq(1,12),dimnames=list(c(),c("hh","total","total.inf"))))
> summaryBy(total+total.inf~hh,x,FUN=sum)
>
> What surprises me are the zeros in the resulting
> total.sum column. The problem remains if total.inf
> is renamed to totalinf or total_inf but not if
> renamed to ttotal.inf .
>
> Can anyone explain to me what the rules for naming
> columns are so that I can avoid such mistakes in the
> future?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
>
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