[R] binning a vector

[Sundar Dorai-Raj]

Arne.Muller at aventis.com wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering wether there's a function in R that takes two vectors (of same length) as input and computes mean values for bins (intervals) or even a sliding window over these vectros.
> 
> I've several x/y data set (input/response) that I'd like plot together. Say the x-data for one data set goes from -5 to 14 with 12,000 values, then I'd like to bin the x-vector in steps of +1 and calculate and plot the mean of the x-values and the y-values within each bin.
> 
> I was browsing the R-docs but couldn't find anything appropiate.
> 
> 	thanks for hints + kind regads,
> 
> 	Arne
> 

Take a look at ?running or ?wapply in package:gregmisc.

--sundar