Is this better: > sapply(split(v, v$Prop), function(x) x$TAZ[which.max(x$area)]) p754921 p75506 p75508 37 282 46 >
Take a look at what you were doing. The result of the 'tapply' is to split v$area in to smaller groups based on v$Prop, so the 'x' parameter is not going to be the same length as your 'v' dataframe and therefore you are indexing to the incorrect value. Best to split the dataframe and then operate on the individual portions. On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:47 PM, LCOG1 <jr...@lcog.org> wrote: > > Please consider the following > > #Data to use > Props<-c("p754921","p754921" ,"p754921","p75506" ,"p75506" > ,"p75506","p75506","p75508","p75508","p75508","p75508","p75508") > TAZ<-c(38,37,37,171,171,282,171,46,46,169,169,169) > Area<-c(109828.04, 128134.71, 46469.57, 37160.21, > 40080.50,344679.66,16972.28, > 342309.558, 260906.870, 17014.659, 7285.706, 10936.316) > > TazProperties..<-data.frame(Props,TAZ,Area) > > > t <- TazProperties.. > v <- aggregate(t$Area, by=list(t$TAZ,t$Props), sum) > names(v) <- c("TAZ", "Prop", "area") > a<-tapply(v$area, v$Prop, function(x) v$TAZ[which.max(x)]) > > "a" returns: > > p754921 p75506 p75508 > 37 38 37 > > and it should return > > p754921 p75506 p75508 > 37 282 46 > > What am i doing wrong? Thanks > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/select-row-based-on-highest-value-tp1566510p1566510.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.