> Also consider ddply in the plyr package (although that's an over kill if > your only having two loops)
Maybe, but it sure is much simpler: library(plyr) ddply(data, c("industry","year"), summarise, avg = mean(X1)) Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.