我想用作ordata.table
的替代方法,因为这两种方法没有像希望的那样有效地缩放到大对象。不幸的是,我还没有弄清楚如何让返回向量的聚合函数在结果中生成多个列。例如:aggregate()
ddply()
data.table
# required packages
library(plyr)
library(data.table)
# simulated data
x <- data.table(value=rnorm(100), g=rep(letters[1:5], each=20))
# ddply output that I would like to get from data.table
ddply(data.frame(x), 'g', function(i) quantile(i$value))
g 0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
1 a -1.547495 -0.7842795 0.202456288 0.6098762 2.223530
2 b -1.366937 -0.4418388 -0.085876995 0.7826863 2.236469
3 c -2.064510 -0.6411390 -0.257526983 0.3213343 1.039053
4 d -1.773933 -0.5493362 -0.007549273 0.4835467 2.116601
5 e -0.780976 -0.2315245 0.194869630 0.6698881 2.207800
# not quite what I am looking for:
x[, quantile(value), by=g]
g V1
1: a -1.547495345
2: a -0.784279536
3: a 0.202456288
4: a 0.609876241
5: a 2.223529739
6: b -1.366937074
7: b -0.441838791
8: b -0.085876995
9: b 0.782686277
10: b 2.236468703
本质上, 和 的输出ddply
是aggregate
宽格式的,而 的输出data.table
是长格式的。答案是重塑数据,还是我的data.table
对象的一些额外参数?