Re: [R] Grouping data in a data frame: is there an efficient way to do it?

2009-09-02 Thread Leo Alekseyev
gs up further if you have a multiprocessor system > with the doMC package to run iterations in parallel. There's an example > here: > http://blog.revolution-computing.com/2009/08/blockprocessing-a-data-frame-with-isplit.html > Hope this helps, > # David Smith > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009

[R] Grouping data in a data frame: is there an efficient way to do it?

2009-09-02 Thread Leo Alekseyev
I have a data frame with about 10^6 rows; I want to group the data according to entries in one of the columns and do something with it. For instance, suppose I want to count up the number of elements in each group. I tried something like aggregate(my.df$my.field, list(my.df$my.field), length) but