How to get print function output into a dataframe

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I would like to turn a print function output into a dataframe object.I used this code but I get only the last line as a dataframe row. Here is a toy dataframe:

df <- read.table(text = " target birds    wolfs     
                 32         9         7 
                 56         8         4 
                 11         2         8 
                 22         2         3 
                 33         8         3 
                 54         1         2 
                 34         7         16 
                 66         1         5 
                 74         17        7 
                 52         8         7 
                 45         2         7 
                 65         20        3 
                 99         6         3 
                 88         1         1 
                 77         3         11 
                 55         30         1  ",header = TRUE)

 for(i in names(df))

     { 
        fit <- lm(df[,i] ~ target, data=df) #does a regression per column 
         res<- summary(fit)$r.squared
         b<-print(paste(res,i))            
     }
# I got this output from the print function :
[1] "1 target"
[1] "0.0110699859137896 birds"
[1] "0.07231285430469 wolfs"

How can I turn this output to a data frame that contains two columns: the first one is for the value (1,0.11,0.07) and the second one is for the names (target,birds,wolfs) I tried to use this command but I got only the las line of the print output:

b1<-as.data.frame(b)
b1
                       b
1 0.07231285430469 wolfs

David Arenburg · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-18 11:02:26Z

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I would just run a simple sapply

data.frame(Col = names(df), 
           Rsqrd = unname(sapply(df, function(x) summary(lm(x ~ df$target))$r.squared)))
#      Col      Rsqrd
# 1 target 1.00000000
# 2  birds 0.01106999
# 3  wolfs 0.07231285

answered Nov 18, 2015 at 11:02

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mql4beginner Over a year ago

Thanks @David Arenburg , one row code that works great.

Roman Luštrik · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-18 10:58:30Z

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I would save everything into a list and then flatten it into a data.frame.

Something along the lines of

N <- 10

my.list <- vector("list", N)

for (i in 1:N) {
  my.list[[i]] <- c(element1 = runif(1), element2 = runif(1))

do.call("rbind", my.list)
        element1   element2
 [1,] 0.63435664 0.57285398
 [2,] 0.04031899 0.06093284
 [3,] 0.63446004 0.03669334
 [4,] 0.27712280 0.80234739
 [5,] 0.08285555 0.92606686
 [6,] 0.17928155 0.93633017
 [7,] 0.04661537 0.08380414
 [8,] 0.41108456 0.18566136
 [9,] 0.27616150 0.38485649
[10,] 0.21108018 0.87233677

answered Nov 18, 2015 at 10:58

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etienne · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-18 11:02:35Z

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You could change a bit your function :

b<-as.data.frame(matrix(NA,nrow=length(names(df)),ncol=2))
# or b<-data.frame(Rsq=numeric(),Name=character(),stringsAsFactors=FALSE) 

for (i in seq_along(names(df))){
    j<-names(df)[i]
    fit <- lm(df[,j] ~ target, data=df) 
    rsq <- summary(fit)$r.squared
    b[i,]<-cbind(rsq,j)        
}

b
                  V1     V2
1                  1 target
2 0.0110699859137896  birds
3   0.07231285430469  wolfs

What didn't work in your function was the fact that b changed at each iteration and the previous values were removed. Here the values are put in the dataframe and you can use it later.

edited Nov 18, 2015 at 11:02

answered Nov 18, 2015 at 10:56

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