R 2.8.0 windows XP I would like to divide the rows of data frame into five groups and then get the mean of one column within the five groups. I have accomplished this using the code below, but I hope there is an easier way, i.e. some function that I can call
# create five groups. cut(data$BMI,5) # get mean of AAMTCARE within each of the five groups mean(data[data[,"BMIcuts"]=="(13.3,21.9]","AAMTCARE"]) mean(data[data[,"BMIcuts"]=="(21.9,30.5]","AAMTCARE"]) mean(data[data[,"BMIcuts"]=="(30.5,39.1]","AAMTCARE"]) mean(data[data[,"BMIcuts"]=="(39.1,47.7]","AAMTCARE"]) mean(data[data[,"BMIcuts"]=="(47.7,56.3]","AAMTCARE"]) As always Thank you, John John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for th...{{dropped:6}} ______________________________________________ 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.