[R] Calculating Summaries for each level of a Categorical variable

[Greg Snow]

The problem is that tapply is expecting a vector for the first argument, your first argument is a list or data frame, so the length that it sees is the number of list elements (columns of the data frame).  You need to either pass a single vector, or use functions like aggregate or the plyr package to work on all the columns in a data frame.

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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
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> 
> Hi Corey,
> 
> Thanks so much for this. However, I get this error for tapply - "Error
> in
> tapply(RT, RT$R, fun=WA):
>   arguments must have same length". Any idea how to get around this?
> 
> Thanks again,
> Raoul
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