as.array memisc 0.99.26.3

Converting Data Frames into Arrays

Description

The as.array for data frames takes all factors in a data frame and uses them to define the dimensions of the resulting array, and fills the array with the values of the remaining numeric variables.

Currently, the data frame must contain all combinations of factor levels.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'data.frame'
as.array(x,data.name=NULL,...)

Arguments

x

a data frame

data.name

a character string, giving the name attached to the dimension that corresponds to the numerical variables in the data frame (that is, the name attached to the corresponding element of the dimnames list).

...

other arguments, ignored.

Value

An array

Examples

BerkeleyAdmissions <- to.data.frame(UCBAdmissions)
BerkeleyAdmissions

   Gender Dept Admitted Rejected
1    Male    A      512      313
2  Female    A       89       19
3    Male    B      353      207
4  Female    B       17        8
5    Male    C      120      205
6  Female    C      202      391
7    Male    D      138      279
8  Female    D      131      244
9    Male    E       53      138
10 Female    E       94      299
11   Male    F       22      351
12 Female    F       24      317

as.array(BerkeleyAdmissions,data.name="Admit")

, , Dept = A

          Gender
Admit      Male Female
  Admitted  512     89
  Rejected  313     19

, , Dept = B

          Gender
Admit      Male Female
  Admitted  353     17
  Rejected  207      8

, , Dept = C

          Gender
Admit      Male Female
  Admitted  120    202
  Rejected  205    391

, , Dept = D

          Gender
Admit      Male Female
  Admitted  138    131
  Rejected  279    244

, , Dept = E

          Gender
Admit      Male Female
  Admitted   53     94
  Rejected  138    299

, , Dept = F

          Gender
Admit      Male Female
  Admitted   22     24
  Rejected  351    317

as.array(BerkeleyAdmissions[-1,],data.name="Admit")

Error : cannot transform 'x' into an array