On Jan 19, 2012, at 6:42 PM, jamesrobinsonjnr wrote:

I have a panel data set defined as a simple data.frame with a factor age and income. I would like to generate the results of a set function such as (sum,
mean, or even diff) separate for each factor (category or age group).
However I want the result to have the same dimension as the overal
data.frame. Therefore, I expect to get repeaded the same result for each
item within a category, but different accross categories.

Eg:
age    income    avg_inc
20         100           100
20           90           100
20         110           100
30          200          200
30          250          200
30          150          200

?ave  (which returnsf the same length as the first argument.)

?tapply
?aggregate (neither which will yield that same number of items

(There are also the doBy and plyr packages.)



What builtin function can assist in doing this without my having to write loops. I know in Eviews there is the sumsby, meansby, minsby and so forth.


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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

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