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dlply

Split data frame, apply function, and return results in a list.

Description

For each subset of a data frame, apply function then combine results into a list. dlply is similar to by except that the results are returned in a different format. To apply a function for each row, use alply with .margins set to 1.

Usage

dlply(
  .data,
  .variables,
  .fun = NULL,
  ...,
  .progress = "none",
  .inform = FALSE,
  .drop = TRUE,
  .parallel = FALSE,
  .paropts = NULL
)

Arguments

`.data`	data frame to be processed
`.variables`	variables to split data frame by, as `as.quoted` variables, a formula or character vector
`.fun`	function to apply to each piece
`...`	other arguments passed on to `.fun`
`.progress`	name of the progress bar to use, see `create_progress_bar`
`.inform`	produce informative error messages? This is turned off by default because it substantially slows processing speed, but is very useful for debugging
`.drop`	should combinations of variables that do not appear in the input data be preserved (FALSE) or dropped (TRUE, default)
`.parallel`	if `TRUE`, apply function in parallel, using parallel backend provided by foreach
`.paropts`	a list of additional options passed into the `foreach` function when parallel computation is enabled. This is important if (for example) your code relies on external data or packages: use the `.export` and `.packages` arguments to supply them so that all cluster nodes have the correct environment set up for computing.

Value

list of results

Input

This function splits data frames by variables.

Output

If there are no results, then this function will return a list of length 0 (list()).

References

Hadley Wickham (2011). The Split-Apply-Combine Strategy for Data Analysis. Journal of Statistical Software, 40(1), 1-29. http://www.jstatsoft.org/v40/i01/.

Examples

linmod <- function(df) {
  lm(rbi ~ year, data = mutate(df, year = year - min(year)))
}
models <- dlply(baseball, .(id), linmod)
models[[1]]

coef <- ldply(models, coef)
with(coef, plot(`(Intercept)`, year))
qual <- laply(models, function(mod) summary(mod)$r.squared)
hist(qual)

plyr

Tools for Splitting, Applying and Combining Data

v1.8.6

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Hadley Wickham [aut, cre]

Initial release