Re: [R] question about "mean"

2010-06-09 Thread Phil Spector
One possibility is aggregate(iris[,-5],list(iris[,5]),mean) Group.1 Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width 1 setosa5.006 3.4281.462 0.246 2 versicolor5.936 2.7704.260 1.326 3 virginica6.588 2.9745

Re: [R] question about "mean"

2010-06-09 Thread Bill.Venables
: Re: [R] question about "mean" apply(iris[, -5], 2, tapply, iris$Species, mean) On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:43 PM, SH.Chou wrote: > Hi there: > I have a question about generating mean value of a data.frame. Take > iris data for example, if I have a data.frame looking

Re: [R] question about "mean"

2010-06-09 Thread Peter Langfelder
apply(iris[, -5], 2, tapply, iris$Species, mean) On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:43 PM, SH.Chou wrote: > Hi there: > I have a question about generating mean value of a data.frame. Take > iris data for example, if I have a data.frame looking like the following: > - >Sepal.Len

[R] question about "mean"

2010-06-09 Thread SH.Chou
Hi there: I have a question about generating mean value of a data.frame. Take iris data for example, if I have a data.frame looking like the following: - Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.WidthSpecies 15.1 3.5

Re: [R] question about mean

2009-02-09 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Rolf Turner wrote: > > On 9/02/2009, at 4:40 PM, bill.venab...@csiro.au wrote: > >> Store your 'matrix' as a data frame. > > Surely it's a data frame already, since ``school'' is character or > factor, > and ``value'' is (must be?) numeric. > > People have this unfortunate predilection

Re: [R] question about mean

2009-02-08 Thread Rolf Turner
On 9/02/2009, at 4:40 PM, bill.venab...@csiro.au wrote: Store your 'matrix' as a data frame. Surely it's a data frame already, since ``school'' is character or factor, and ``value'' is (must be?) numeric. People have this unfortunate predilection to refer to data frames a

Re: [R] question about mean

2009-02-08 Thread Bill.Venables
E)) Bill Venables http://www.cmis.csiro.au/bill.venables/ -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of cindy Guo Sent: Monday, 9 February 2009 1:32 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] question about mean Hello, every

[R] question about mean

2009-02-08 Thread cindy Guo
Hello, everyone, I have a matrix like following: school value A .1 A .2 A .15 A .2 B .3 B .5 C .3 C .3 C .4 C .5 C .6 C .9 C 1 I want to get the mean 'value' for each 'school', b