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Hongwei Dong <pdxd...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, R users, I'm wondering how I can aggregate data in R with different functions for different columns. For example: x<-rep(1:5,3) y<-cbind(x,a=1:15,b=21:35) y<-data.frame(y) I want to aggregate "a" and "b" in y by "x". With "a", I want to use function "mean"; with "b", I want to use function "sum". I tried: > aggregate(y,x,mean(y$a),sum(y$b)) But I got the error: Error in match.fun(FUN) : 'mean(y$a)' is not a function, character or symbol Anyone can tell me how to fix this problem? Thanks. Gary [[alternative HTML version deleted]]_____________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.