Hi All,

I am currently doing the following to compute summary statistics of aggregated data:
a = aggregate(warpbreaks$breaks, warpbreaks[,-1], mean)
b = aggregate(warpbreaks$breaks, warpbreaks[,-1], sum)
c = aggregate(warpbreaks$breaks, warpbreaks[,-1], length)
ans = cbind(a, b[,3], c[,3])

This seems unnecessarily complex to me so I tried
> aggregate(warpbreaks$breaks, warpbreaks[,-1], function(z) c(mean(z),sum(z),length(z)))
but aggregate doesn't allow FUN argument to return a vector.

I tried "by", "tapply" and several other functions as well but the output needed further modifications to get the same format as "ans" above.

Is there any other function same as aggregate which allow FUN argument to return vector.

Regards
Utkarsh

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