Perfect! Thanx a lot! :) 2010/4/21 Joshua Wiley <jwiley.ps...@gmail.com>
> Look at ?by > > for example > > by(data=v2, INDICES=v1, FUN=median, na.rm=TRUE) > > This will calculate the median of v2 (age) for each level of the > indices v1 (in your case M and F). > > > If you are only interested the median for a single level, Mohamed's > solution is simpler. > > Josh > > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Vlatka Matkovic Puljic > <v.matkovic.pul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have additional Q: > > > > v1 is gender (M=1 and F=2) > > v2 is age > > > > I want R to calculate median only for M (1), > > but my comand is not good :) > > > > while(v1=1){median(v2,na.rm=TRUE)} > > Error: unexpected '=' in "while(Q2=" > > > > 2010/4/21 Vlatka Matkovic Puljic <v.matkovic.pul...@gmail.com> > >> > >> Thank you! > >> > >> 2010/4/21 Joshua Wiley <jwiley.ps...@gmail.com> > >>> > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> summary() removes NAs by default. You can get the same results using > >>> > >>> median(year, na.rm=TRUE) > >>> > >>> see ?median > >>> > >>> HTH, > >>> > >>> Josh > >>> > >>> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Vlatka Matkovic Puljic > >>> <v.matkovic.pul...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > Hi, > >>> > > >>> > I have dataset n1 and v1 (years). > >>> > when i ask > >>> > median(year) > >>> > [1] NA > >>> > > >>> > but if i put summary of dataset n1: > >>> > summary(n1) > >>> > R produces median (together with min/max/mean....) > >>> > > >>> > why it is so? > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > -- > >>> > ************************** > >>> > Vlatka Matkovic Puljic > >>> > 095/8618 171 > >>> > > >>> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >>> > > >>> > ______________________________________________ > >>> > 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. > >>> > > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Joshua Wiley > >>> Senior in Psychology > >>> University of California, Riverside > >>> http://www.joshuawiley.com/ > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> ************************** > >> Vlatka Matkovic Puljic > >> 095/8618 171 > > > > > > > > -- > > ************************** > > Vlatka Matkovic Puljic > > 095/8618 171 > > > > > > -- > Joshua Wiley > Senior in Psychology > University of California, Riverside > http://www.joshuawiley.com/ > -- ************************** Vlatka Matkovic Puljic 095/8618 171 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.