[R] request: a class having max frequency

Chuck Cleland ccleland at optonline.net
Fri Jun 6 15:18:55 CEST 2008


On 6/6/2008 9:14 AM, Muhammad Azam wrote:
> Dear R users
> I have a very basic question. I tried but could not find the  required  result. using
> dat <- pima
> f <- table(dat[,9])
> 
>> f 
>   0   1 
> 500 268
> i want to find that class say "0" having maximum frequency i.e 500. I used
>> which.max(f)
> which provide 
> 0 
> 1  
> How can i get only the "0".  Thanks and 

table(iris$Species)

     setosa versicolor  virginica
         50         50         50

which.max(table(iris$Species))
setosa
      1

names(which.max(table(iris$Species)))
[1] "setosa"

> best regards
> 
> Muhammad Azam 
> Ph.D. Student 
> Department of Medical Statistics, 
> Informatics and Health Economics 
> University of Innsbruck, Austria 
> 
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