Hi

same result can be achieved by

dat.ag<-aggregate(dat[ , c("DCE","DP")], by= list(dat$first.Name, dat$Name, 
dat$Department) , "I")

Sorting according to the first row seems to be quite tricky. You could probably 
get closer by using some combination of split and order and arranging back 
chunks  of data

ooo1<-order(split(dat$DCE,interaction(dat$first.Name, dat$Name, dat$Department, 
drop=T))[[1]])
data.frame(sapply(split(dat$DCE,interaction(dat$first.Name, dat$Name, 
dat$Department, drop=T)), rbind))[ooo1,]
  Ancient.Nation.QLH Amish.Wives.TAS Auction.Videos.YME
2               0.28              NA                 NA
4               0.28              NA                 NA
1               0.54            0.59               0.57
3               0.54            0.59               0.57

however I wonder why the order according to the first row is necessary if all 
NAs are on correct positions?

Cheers
Petr


> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of David
> Winsemius
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 9:30 AM
> To: Karim Mezhoud <kmezh...@gmail.com>
> Cc: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] aggregate dataframe by multiple factors
>
>
> > On Nov 17, 2016, at 11:27 PM, Karim Mezhoud <kmezh...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > the dat  has missing values NA,
> >
> >    first.Name   Name Department  DCE   DP       date
> > 5      Auction Videos        YME 0.57 0.56 2013-09-30
> > 18       Amish  Wives        TAS 0.59 0.56 2013-09-30
> > 34     Ancient Nation        QLH 0.54 0.58 2013-09-30
> > 53     Auction Videos        YME   NA   NA 2013-12-28
> > 66       Amish  Wives        TAS   NA   NA 2013-12-28
> > 82     Ancient Nation        QLH 0.28 0.29 2013-12-28
> > 102    Auction Videos        YME 0.57 0.56 2014-03-30
> > 115      Amish  Wives        TAS 0.59 0.56 2014-03-30
> > 131    Ancient Nation        QLH 0.54 0.58 2014-03-30
> > 150    Auction Videos        YME   NA   NA 2014-06-28
> > 163      Amish  Wives        TAS   NA   NA 2014-06-28
> > 179    Ancient Nation        QLH 0.28 0.29 2014-06-28
> >
> >
> > agg <- as.data.frame(aggregate(dat[ , c("DCE","DP")], by=
> > list(dat$first.Name, dat$Name, dat$Department) , "sort"))
>
> The closest I could get on a few attempts was:
>
> (agg <- as.data.frame(aggregate(dat[ , c("DCE","DP")], by=
> list(dat$first.Name, dat$Name, dat$Department) , function(d) { unlist(d)}))
>  )
>
>   Group.1 Group.2 Group.3 DCE.1 DCE.2 DCE.3 DCE.4 DP.1 DP.2 DP.3 DP.4
> 1 Ancient  Nation     QLH  0.54  0.28  0.54  0.28 0.58 0.29 0.58 0.29
> 2   Amish   Wives     TAS  0.59    NA  0.59    NA 0.56   NA 0.56   NA
> 3 Auction  Videos     YME  0.57    NA  0.57    NA 0.56   NA 0.56   NA
>
> I think the sort operation might be somewhat ambiguous in this instance. I
> tried:
>
>  (agg <- as.data.frame(aggregate(dat[ , c("DCE","DP")], by=
> list(dat$first.Name, dat$Name, dat$Department) , function(d) {
> unlist(lapply(d,sort))}))
>  )
>
> With no success, not even a sorted result.
>
> --
> David.
> >
> >
> > agg has list of value. I would separate value in different columns.
> >
> >  Group.1 Group.2 Group.3                    DCE                     DP
> > 1 Ancient  Nation     QLH 0.28, 0.28, 0.54, 0.54 0.29, 0.29, 0.58, 0.58
> > 2   Amish   Wives     TAS             0.59, 0.59             0.56, 0.56
> > 3 Auction  Videos     YME             0.57, 0.57             0.56, 0.56
> >
> > The  goal:
> >
> > Group.1 Group.2 Group.3  DCE.1 DCE.2 DCE.3  DCE.4  DP.1  DP.2  DP.3  DP.4
> > 1 Ancient  Nation     QLH    0.28     0.28    0.54     0.54     0.29, 0.29,
> > 0.58, 0.58
> > 2   Amish   Wives     TAS        NA     NA     0.59, 0.59           NA
> > NA  0.56, 0.56
> > 3 Auction  Videos     YME         NA   NA      0.57, 0.57             NA
> > NA  0.56, 0.56
> >
> >
> >
> > dat <- structure(list(first.Name = structure(c(3L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 1L, 2L,
> > 3L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 1L, 2L), .Label = c("Amish", "Ancient", "Auction",
> > "Ax", "Bachelorette", "Basketball", "BBQ", "Cake", "Celebrity",
> > "Chef", "Clean", "Colonial", "Comedy", "Comic", "Crocodile", "Dog",
> > "Empire", "Extreme", "Farm", "Half Pint", "Hollywood", "House", "Ice
> > Road", "Jersey", "Justice", "Love", "Mega", "Model", "Modern",
> > "Mountain", "Mystery", "Myth", "New York", "Paradise", "Pioneer",
> > "Queer", "Restaurant", "Road", "Royal", "Spouse", "Star", "Storage",
> > "Survival", "The Great American", "Tool", "Treasure", "Wedding",
> > "Wife"), class = "factor"), Name = structure(c(43L, 47L, 29L, 43L,
> > 47L, 29L, 43L, 47L, 29L, 43L, 47L, 29L), .Label = c("Aliens",
> > "Behavior", "Casino", "Casting Call", "Challenge", "Contest",
> > "Crashers", "Crew", "Dad", "Dancing", "Date", "Disasters", "Dynasty",
> > "Family", "Garage", "Greenlight", "Gypsies", "Haul", "Hot Rod",
> > "Inventor", "Jail", "Job", "Justice", "Marvels", "Master", "Mates",
> > "Model", "Moms", "Nation", "Ninja", "Patrol", "People", "Pitmasters",
> > "Queens", "Rescue", "Rivals", "Room", "Rooms", "Rules", "Star",
> > "Stars", "Superhero", "Videos", "VIP", "Wars", "Wishes", "Wives",
> > "Wrangler"), class = "factor"), Department = structure(c(8L, 6L, 2L,
> > 8L, 6L, 2L, 8L, 6L, 2L, 8L, 6L, 2L), .Label = c("HXW", "QLH", "RAR",
> > "RYC", "SYI", "TAS", "VUV", "YME"), class = "factor"),
> >    DCE = c(0.57, 0.59, 0.54, NA, NA, 0.28, 0.57, 0.59, 0.54,
> >    NA, NA, 0.28), DP = c(0.56, 0.56, 0.58, NA, NA, 0.29, 0.56,
> >    0.56, 0.58, NA, NA, 0.29), date = structure(c(15978, 15978,
> >    15978, 16067, 16067, 16067, 16159, 16159, 16159, 16249, 16249,
> >    16249), class = "Date")), description = "", row.names = c(5L, 18L,
> > 34L, 53L, 66L, 82L, 102L, 115L, 131L, 150L, 163L, 179L), class =
> > "data.frame", .Names = c("first.Name", "Name", "Department", "DCE",
> > "DP", "date"))
> >
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