[R] How to get the most frequent value of the subgroup

[David Winsemius]

On Mar 29, 2012, at 9:30 AM, Jung, Yongsuhk wrote:

> Dear Members of the R-Help,
>
>
> While using a R function - 'aggregate' that you developed, I become  
> to have a question.
>
> In that function,
>
>> aggregate(x, by, FUN, ..., simplify = TRUE)
>
> I was wondering about what type of FUN I should write if I want to  
> get "the most frequent value of the subgroup" as a summary  
> statistics of the subgroups.

Something along the lines of

  function(x){  tbl <- table(x);  retrun(names(tbl)[which.max(tbl)] }

You could also search for definitions that have appeared over the  
years in rhelp for a mode function (but not the existing mode function  
which is not designed to deliver what you request.)

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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT