rliststatisticscorrelationpearson

How to loop subset of lists in R?


I have a list of 9 lists, see the following code where I want to loop only three lists p, r and t for Pearson, Spearson and Kendall correlations, respectively, instead of all 9 lists. The current pseudocode is the following where the test function is corrplot(M.cor, ...), see below the complete pseudocode

for (i in p.mat.all) {
...
}

Code with mtcars test data

library("psych")
library("corrplot")   

M <- mtcars 

M.cor <- cor(M)

p.mat.all <- psych::corr.test(M.cor, method = c("pearson", "kendall", "spearman"), 
   adjust = "none", ci = F)

str(p.mat.all)

str(p.mat.all$r)

str(p.mat.all$t)

str(p.mat.all$p)

Output about the list of 9 lists

List of 9
 $ r     : num [1:11, 1:11] 1 -0.991 -0.993 -0.956 0.939 ...
  ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
  .. ..$ : chr [1:11] "mpg" "cyl" "disp" "hp" ...
  .. ..$ : chr [1:11] "mpg" "cyl" "disp" "hp" ...
 $ n     : num 11
 $ t     : num [1:11, 1:11] Inf -21.92 -25.4 -9.78 8.22 ...
  ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
  .. ..$ : chr [1:11] "mpg" "cyl" "disp" "hp" ...
  .. ..$ : chr [1:11] "mpg" "cyl" "disp" "hp" ...
 $ p     : num [1:11, 1:11] 0.00 4.04e-09 1.09e-09 4.32e-06 1.78e-05 ...
  ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
  .. ..$ : chr [1:11] "mpg" "cyl" "disp" "hp" ...
  .. ..$ : chr [1:11] "mpg" "cyl" "disp" "hp" ...
 $ se    : num [1:11, 1:11] 0 0.0452 0.0391 0.0978 0.1143 ...
  ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
  .. ..$ : chr [1:11] "mpg" "cyl" "disp" "hp" ...
  .. ..$ : chr [1:11] "mpg" "cyl" "disp" "hp" ...
 $ adjust: chr "none"
 $ sym   : logi TRUE
 $ ci    : NULL
 $ Call  : language psych::corr.test(x = M.cor, method = c("pearson", "kendall", "spearman"),      adjust = "none", ci = F)
 - attr(*, "class")= chr [1:2] "psych" "corr.test"
 num [1:11, 1:11] 1 -0.991 -0.993 -0.956 0.939 ...
 - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
  ..$ : chr [1:11] "mpg" "cyl" "disp" "hp" ...
  ..$ : chr [1:11] "mpg" "cyl" "disp" "hp" ...
 num [1:11, 1:11] Inf -21.92 -25.4 -9.78 8.22 ...
 - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
  ..$ : chr [1:11] "mpg" "cyl" "disp" "hp" ...
  ..$ : chr [1:11] "mpg" "cyl" "disp" "hp" ...
 num [1:11, 1:11] 0.00 4.04e-09 1.09e-09 4.32e-06 1.78e-05 ...
 - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
  ..$ : chr [1:11] "mpg" "cyl" "disp" "hp" ...
  ..$ : chr [1:11] "mpg" "cyl" "disp" "hp" ...

My pseudocode about looping all three correlations with the test function corrplot, but it will not work because it goes through all 9 lists

for (i in p.mat.all) {
  p.mat <- i
  print("p.mat ===========")
  print(i)    

  alpha <- 0.05 
  corrplot( M.cor,  
          method="color", 
          type="upper", 
          addCoefasPercent = TRUE, 
          tl.col = "black",
          tl.pos = "td", 
          p.mat = p.mat, sig.level = alpha, insig = "blank", 
          order = "original"
  )
}

Expected output: loop only t, p and r lists such that they can be passed to the test function corrplot

R: 3.3.1
OS: Debian 8.5


Solution

  • Or with an *apply function:

    lapply(p.mat.all[c("r","p","t")], function(x) {
      # x takes now first p.mat.all$r, then p.mat.all$p, etc
      print("p.mat ===========")
      print(x)    
    
      alpha <- 0.05 
      corrplot( M.cor,  
              method="color", 
              type="upper", 
              addCoefasPercent = TRUE, 
              tl.col = "black",
              tl.pos = "td", 
              p.mat = x, sig.level = alpha, insig = "blank", 
              order = "original"
      )
    })