Array row calculations - arrays

Question

I have the following table:
DATA:
Lines <- " ID MeasureX MeasureY x1 x2 x3 x4 x5
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 1 1 0 1 1 1 1
3 1 1 1 2 3 3 3"
DF <- read.table(text = Lines, header = TRUE, as.is = TRUE)
What i would like to achieve is :
Create 5 columns(r1-r5)
which is the division of each column x1-x5 with MeasureX (example x1/measurex, x2/measurex etc.)
Create 5 columns(p1-p5)
which is the division of each column x1-x5 with number 1-5 (the number of xcolumns) example x1/1, x2/2 etc.
MeasureY is irrelevant for now, the end product would be the ID and columns r1-r5 and p1-p5, is this feasible?
In SAS i would go with something like this:
data test6;
set test5;
array x {5} x1- x5;
array r{5} r1 - r5;
array p{5} p1 - p5;
do i=1 to 5;
r{i} = x{i}/MeasureX;
p{i} = x{i}/(i);
end;
The reason would be to have more dynamic beacuse the number of columns could change in the future.

Answer 1

Argument recycling allows you do do element-wise division with a constant vector. The tricky part was extracting the digits from the column names. I then repeated each of the digits by the number of rows to do the second division-task.
DF[ ,paste0("r", 1:5)] <- DF[ , grep("x", names(DF) )]/ DF$MeasureX
DF[ ,paste0("p", 1:5)] <- DF[ , grep("x", names(DF) )]/ # element-wise division
rep( as.numeric( sub("\\D","",names(DF)[ # remove non-digits
grep("x", names(DF))] #returns only 'x'-cols
) ), each=nrow(DF) ) # make them as long as needed
#-------------
> DF
ID MeasureX MeasureY x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 r1 r2 r3 r4 r5 p1 p2 p3 p4 p5
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0.5 0.3333333 0.25 0.2
2 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0.5 0.3333333 0.25 0.2
3 3 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 1 2 3 3 3 1 1.0 1.0000000 0.75 0.6
This could be greatly simplified if you already know the sequence vector for the second division task would be 1-5, but this was designed to allow "gaps" in the sequence for column names and still use the digit information in the names as the divisor. (You were not entirely clear about what situations this code would be used in.) The construct of r{1-5} in SAS is mimicked by [ , paste0('r', 1:5)]. SAS is a macro language and sometimes experienced users have trouble figuring out how to make R behave like one. Generally it takes a while to lose the for-loop mentality and begin using R as a functional language.

Answer 2

An alternative with the data.table package:
cols <- names(df[c(4:8)])
library(data.table)
setDT(df)[, (paste0("r",1:5)) := .SD / df$MeasureX, by = ID, .SDcols = cols
][, (paste0("p",1:5)) := .SD / 1:5, by = ID, .SDcols = cols]
which results in:
> df
ID MeasureX MeasureY x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 r1 r2 r3 r4 r5 p1 p2 p3 p4 p5
1: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0.5 0.3333333 0.25 0.2
2: 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0.5 0.3333333 0.25 0.2
3: 3 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 1 2 3 3 3 1 1.0 1.0000000 0.75 0.6

Answer 3

You could put together a nifty loop or apply to do this, but here it is explicitly:
# Handling the "r" columns.
DF$r1 <- DF$x1 / DF$MeasureX
DF$r2 <- DF$x2 / DF$MeasureX
DF$r3 <- DF$x3 / DF$MeasureX
DF$r4 <- DF$x4 / DF$MeasureX
DF$r5 <- DF$x5 / DF$MeasureX
# Handling the "p" columns.
DF$p1 <- DF$x1 / 1
DF$p2 <- DF$x2 / 2
DF$p3 <- DF$x3 / 3
DF$p4 <- DF$x4 / 4
DF$p5 <- DF$x5 / 5
# Taking only the columns we want.
FinalDF <- DF[, c("ID", "r1", "r2", "r3", "r4", "r5", "p1", "p2", "p3", "p4", "p5")]
Just noting that this is pretty straightforward matrix manipulation that you definitely could have found elsewhere. Perhaps you're new to R, but still put a little more effort in next time. If you are new to R, it's definitely worth the time to look up some basic R coding tutorial or video.