[R] set dataframe field value from lookup table

[David Winsemius]

On Dec 9, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Jon Erik Ween wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> This is (hopefully) a bit more cogent phrasing of a previous post. I'm
> trying to compute a z-score to rows in a large dataframe based on  
> values in
> another dataframe. Here's the script (that does not work). 2 questons,
>
> 1) Anyone know of a more elegant way to calculate the "rounded" age  
> value
> than the nested ifelse's I've used?
>
> 2) how to reference the lookup table based on computed indices?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jon
>
> # Define tables
> DSTzlook <-
> read.table("/Users/jween/Documents/ResearchProjects/ABC/data/ 
> DSTz.txt",
> header=TRUE, sep="\t", na.strings="NA", dec=".", strip.white=TRUE)
> df<-stroke
>
> # Compute rounded age.
> df$Agetmp
> <-ifelse(df$Age>=89,89,ifelse(df$Age>=84,84,ifelse(df 
> $Age>=79,79,ifelse(df$Age>=74,74,ifelse(df$Age>=69,69,ifelse(df 
> $Age>=64,64,ifelse(df$Age>=54,54,ifelse(df$Age>=44,44,ifelse(df 
> $Age>=34,34,ifelse(df$Age>=29,29,ifelse(df$Age>=24,24,ifelse(df 
> $Age>=19,19,17))))))))))))

Ew, painful. If you want categorized ages (since what the above coding  
is producing is not "rounded" in any sense of that word as I  
understand it, then why not findInterval() as an index into the ages  
you wnat to label these case with?

df$Agetmp <- c(17,19,24,29,34,44,54,64,69,74,79,84)[  # note Extract  
operation
              findInterval(runif(100,0,100),  
c(17,19,24,29,34,44,54,64,69,74,79,84,110) )
             ]  # close extraction


The other option, of course, and a more "honest" one in this instance  
would be

cut(vec, breaks=c(...), labels=c(...) )

(It's not clear why you are not picking midpoint ages within those  
brackets to me.)

>
> # Reference the lookup table based on computed indices
> df$DSTz
> <-DSTzlook[which(DSTzlook[,1]==df$Agetmp),which(DSTzlook[1,]==df$DSF 
> +df$DSB)]

I have not been able to figure out what you are trying to do here.  
Trying to use a 2d lookup looks promising a a way to emulate what an  
Excel user might attempt, but an example (as requested in the message  
at the bottom of every posting) would really be of great help in  
making this more concrete for those of us with insufficient  
abstractive abilities.

-- 
David.

>
> # Cleanup
> #rm(df)
> #df$Agetmp<-NULL
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT