[R] question about for loop

Petr Pikal petr.pikal at precheza.cz
Thu Dec 14 14:26:40 CET 2006


Hi

well, we do not know how is your data organised so it is only a 
guess.

On 14 Dec 2006 at 13:54, Jenny persson wrote:

Date sent:      	Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:54:27 +0100 (CET)
From:           	Jenny persson <jenny197806 at yahoo.se>
To:             	r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject:        	[R] question about for loop

> 
>   Dear R-experts,
> 
>   I have a dataset of 4 patients and each patient has many records at
>   four different time points. I have done 4 different qqnorm plots on
>   the same graph where each plot represents the records of one patient
>   at each time point. I would like to do the same graph for the
>   remaining patiens, but instead of repeating the below procedure
>   three more times I would like to have a for loop so when I run the
>   loop I would get four graphs of the four patients at the same time,
>   where each graph has 4 different qqnorm plots representing the data
>   at  four time points for each patient. I tried to do the loop but
>   couldn't make it work. 
> 
>   below is the code used to the graph for one patient. sli-4 - sli_7
>   contain records at four time points. dat=dataset, y=records,
>   Slide=time point
> 
> 

based on assumption dat has a column pat.no (numeric)

for (i in dat$pat.no)

{
dat.p<-dat[i,]

>   ### Patient 200004

# here change all dat to dat.p
> 
>   sli_4=dat$y[dat$Slide==4 & dat$Control==0]
>   sli_5=dat$y[dat$Slide==5 & dat$Control==0]
>   sli_6=dat$y[dat$Slide==6 & dat$Control==0]
>   sli_7=dat$y[dat$Slide==7 & dat$Control==0]
> 
>   ### qq-plot of patient 200004
>   q_sli4<-qqnorm(sli_4,plot.it=FALSE)
>   q_sli5<-qqnorm(sli_5,plot.it=FALSE)
>   q_sli6<-qqnorm(sli_6,plot.it=FALSE)
>   q_sli7<-qqnorm(sli_7,plot.it=FALSE)
> 
>   plot(range(q_sli4,q_sli5,q_sli6,q_sli7),range(q_sli4,q_sli5,q_sli6,q
>   _sli7),type="n", xlab = "Theoretical Quantiles",col.main="blue",
>   main = "Normal Q-Q Plot of index for patient 200004",ylab = "Sample

# here you shall consult expression or bquote help page

>   Quantiles") points(q_sli4,col=4,pch=0,cex=1)
>   points(q_sli5,col=3,pch=1,cex=1) points(q_sli6,col=2,pch=2,cex=1)
>   points(q_sli7,col=1,pch=3,cex=1) legend("topleft",c("Day 0", "56
>   days","112 days", "252 days"),col=c(4,3,2,1),
>   text.col=c(4,3,2,1),pch=c(0,1,2,3),bg="bisque") abline(0,0)

}

# here is the end of your plotting

However you need either to save your plots to some files (see pdf, 
png) or to tell to your progrem to wait with further plotting until 
you look at your plot.

HTH
Petr

> 
> 
>   Thanks alot for your help,
> 
>   All the bests,
>   Jenny
> 
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Petr Pikal
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