Re: [R] aggregating along bins and bin-quantiles

2008-10-22 Thread Ivan Alves
Dear Mark and all interested, Unfortunately the code provided by Mark does not work - there is a syntax error when run as provided. I looked at possibly solving the problem, but without much knowledge of the output of "split" (looks like a list of lists, and not a list of data frames), it i

Re: [R] aggregating along bins and bin-quantiles

2008-10-21 Thread Ivan Alves
Dear all, Thanks to Jim and Mark for suggesting including the reproducible code. Please note that the enclosed file would need to go to into the home folder or that the path for reading the CSV file be changed. I hope no encoding issues emerge when reading it. And the code library(Hmis

Re: [R] aggregating along bins and bin-quantiles

2008-10-20 Thread Ivan Alves
Apologies, just a typo in the first instruction (when translating the names), the question is still valid On 21 Oct 2008, at 00:38, Ivan Alves wrote: Dear all, I would like to aggregate a data frame (consisting of 2 columns - one for the bins, say factors, and one for the values) along bins

[R] aggregating along bins and bin-quantiles

2008-10-20 Thread Ivan Alves
Dear all, I would like to aggregate a data frame (consisting of 2 columns - one for the bins, say factors, and one for the values) along bins and quantiles within the bins. I have tried aggregate(data.frame$values, list(bin = data.frame $bin,Quantile=cut2(data.frame$bin,g=10)),sum) but the