[R] a more elegant approach to getting the majority level

[Eric Lecoutre]

You could also use:

> names(rev(sort(table(x))))[1]

There is nonetheless a difference if there are several levels which
provides this maximum.
This method will only return one, yours would return all those levels
(which may not be desirable for some others processing).

HTH,

Eric

Eric Lecoutre
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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Rajarshi Guha
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> Subject: [R] a more elegant approach to getting the majority level
> 
> 
> Hi, I have a factor and I would like to find the most frequent level.
> 
> I think my current approach is a bit long winded and I was 
> wondering if there was a more elegant way to do it:
> 
> x <- factor(sample(1:0, 5,replace=TRUE))
> 
> levels(x)[ which( as.logical((table(x) == max(table(x)))) == TRUE ) ]
> 
> (The length of x will always be an odd number, so I wont get a tie in
> max())
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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