averaging rows on a data.frame according to a factor

Hi,


dat<-as.data.frame(cbind(c("a","a","a","b","b"), c(1,2,3,3,2),c(4,3,5,4,4)))
?str(dat)
#'data.frame':??? 5 obs. of? 3 variables:
# $ V1: Factor w/ 2 levels "a","b": 1 1 1 2 2
# $ V2: Factor w/ 3 levels "1","2","3": 1 2 3 3 2
# $ V3: Factor w/ 3 levels "3","4","5": 2 1 3 2 2

#better way would be
dat<-data.frame(V1=c("a","a","a","b","b"), V2=c(1,2,3,3,2),V3=c(4,3,5,4,4))
?str(dat)
#'data.frame':??? 5 obs. of? 3 variables:
# $ V1: Factor w/ 2 levels "a","b": 1 1 1 2 2
# $ V2: num? 1 2 3 3 2
# $ V3: num? 4 3 5 4 4

library(plyr)
?ddply(dat,.(V1),colwise(mean))

#or
?aggregate(.~V1,data=dat,mean)

A.K.

Dear all,

I apologize for the newbie question, but I'm stuck.

I have a data frame in the following form:

dat<-as.data.frame(cbind(c("a","a","a","b","b"), c(1,2,3,3,2),c(4,3,5,4,4)))

I need a way to generate a new dataframe with the average for each factor.
The result should look like:

res<-as.data.frame(cbind(c("a","b"), c(2,2.5),c(4,4)))

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jonathan

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