using weighted.mean with tapply()
I am trying to calculate the weighted mean for a of 10 deciles and I get an error:
decile <- tapply(X=mat$trt1m, INDEX=mat$Rank, FUN=weighted.mean, w=mat$mcap)
Error in FUN(X[[1]], ...) : 'x' and 'w' must have the same length All three of my inputs have the same length, as shown below, and the weighted.mean calculation works by itself, just not in tapply()
length(mat$Rank)
[1] 1853
length(mat$mcap)
[1] 1853
length(mat$trt1m)
[1] 1853
mean(mat$trt1m)
[1] -0.04475397 weighted.mean(mat$trt1m, w=mat$mcap) [1] -0.04819243
mat$mcap[is.na(mat$mcap)] <- min(mat$mcap, na.rm=TRUE)
I am probably making a simple error in how I pass the optional parameter w. Any help would be greatly appreciated.