Base R functions can handle this easily. It is preferable to use dput() as a compact way of providing data on the list:
> dta <- read.table(text="ID Value + 1 0.69 + 1 0.31 + 2 0.01 + 2 0.99 + 3 1.00 + 4 NA + 4 0 + 4 1 + 5 0.5 + 5 0.5 + ", header=TRUE) > dput(dta) structure(list(ID = c(1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 5L, 5L), Value = c(0.69, 0.31, 0.01, 0.99, 1, NA, 0, 1, 0.5, 0.5)), .Names = c("ID", "Value"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -10L)) Then you just need the aggregate() function: > aggregate(Value~ID, dta, max, na.rm=TRUE) ID Value 1 1 0.69 2 2 0.99 3 3 1.00 4 4 1.00 5 5 0.50 See ?aggregate for the help page. ------------------------------------- David L Carlson Department of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77840-4352 -----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Tom Wright Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 9:13 AM To: Saba Sehrish Cc: R-help Mailing List Subject: Re: [R] Finding Highest value in groups Assuming your dataframe is in a variable x: > require(dplyr) > x %>% group_by(ID) %>% summarise(maxVal = max(Value,na.rm=TRUE)) On Fri, 2016-04-22 at 13:51 +0000, Saba Sehrish via R-help wrote: > Hi > > > I have two columns in data frame. First column is based on "ID" assigned to > each group of my data (similar ID depicts one group). From second column, I > want to identify highest value among each group and want to assign the same > ID to that highest value. > > Right now the data looks like: > > ID Value > 1 0.69 > 1 0.31 > 2 0.01 > 2 0.99 > 3 1.00 > 4 NA > 4 0 > 4 1 > 5 0.5 > 5 0.5 > > I want to use R program to get results as below: > > ID Value > 1 0.69 > 2 0.99 > 3 1.00 > 4 1 > 5 0.5 > > Kindly guide me in this regard. > > Thanks > Saba > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.