[R] request: a class having max frequency

[Chuck Cleland]

On 6/6/2008 9:18 AM, Chuck Cleland wrote:
> 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"

   If, as above, more than one category frequency is at the maximum, you 
might want something like this:

x <- table(iris$Species)

which(x == max(x))
     setosa versicolor  virginica
          1          2          3

names(which(x == max(x)))
[1] "setosa"     "versicolor" "virginica"

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