Re: [R] Function that is giving me a headache- any help appreciated (automatic read )

2010-05-18 Thread Hadley Wickham
> precip.1 <- subset(DF, precipitation!="NA") > b <- ddply(precip.1$precipitation, .(precip.1$gauge_name), cumsum) > DF.precip <- precip.1 > DF.precip$precipitation <- b$.data I suspect what you want here is ddply(precip.1, "gauge_name", transform, precipitation = cumsum(precipitation)) Hadley

Re: [R] Function that is giving me a headache- any help appreciated (automatic read )

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Ehlers
sefick wrote: From: stephen sefick Subject: [R] Function that is giving me a headache- any help appreciated (automatic read ) To: r-help@r-project.org Received: Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 12:38 PM note: whole function is below- I am sure I am doing something silly. when I use it like USGS(input=&q

Re: [R] Function that is giving me a headache- any help appreciated (automatic read )

2010-05-18 Thread John Kane
I don't think you can do this precipitation!="NA") have a look at ?is.na --- On Tue, 5/18/10, stephen sefick wrote: > From: stephen sefick > Subject: [R] Function that is giving me a headache- any help appreciated > (automatic read ) > To: r-help@r-project.org

[R] Function that is giving me a headache- any help appreciated (automatic read )

2010-05-18 Thread stephen sefick
note: whole function is below- I am sure I am doing something silly. when I use it like USGS(input="precipitation") it is choking on the precip.1 <- subset(DF, precipitation!="NA") b <- ddply(precip.1$precipitation, .(precip.1$gauge_name), cumsum) DF.precip <- precip.1 DF.precip$precipitation <-