[R] Calculating mean together with split

David Barron mothsailor at googlemail.com
Wed Sep 20 16:10:28 CEST 2006


Of course, aggregate will work too, depends on how you want the output
to be formatted.  You could also look at summarize in the Hmisc
package.

On 20/09/06, David Barron <mothsailor at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, that should have been package gdata, not gtools...they're both
> in the same bundle, though.
>
> On 20/09/06, Rainer M Krug <rkrug at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a table called npl containing results of simulations.
> >
> > It contains about 19000 entries and the structure looks like this:
> >
> >   NoPlants                  sim run year DensPlants
> > 1        6 lng_cs99_renosterbos   1    4    0.00192
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >
> >
> > it has 43 different entries for sim and year goes from 1 to 100, and run
> > from 1 to 5.
> >
> > I would like to calculate the mean of DensPlants for each simulation and
> > each year seperately, i.e. calculating the mean for all combinations of
> > sim and year over run.
> >
> > I can use
> >
> > split(npl, npl$sim)
> >
> > to split npl into different groups each containing the entries for one
> > parameterset - but where to go from there?
> >
> > Rainer
> >
> > --
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> > Biology (UCT)
> >
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