do you mean something like this: tapply(x, g, function (y) { sapply(1:length(y), function (i) mean(y[-i])) })
I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris ---- Dimitris Rizopoulos Ph.D. Student Biostatistical Centre School of Public Health Catholic University of Leuven Address: Kapucijnenvoer 35, Leuven, Belgium Tel: +32/(0)16/336899 Fax: +32/(0)16/337015 Web: http://med.kuleuven.be/biostat/ http://www.student.kuleuven.be/~m0390867/dimitris.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Casey Klofstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <r-help@r-project.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 4:45 PM Subject: [R] group mean, minus each row's value >I used the following to assign each row the group average, where w is > the new group average variable, x is the variabale to be averaged, > and > g is the nominal group indicator: > > w <- ave(x,g) > > Now I want to calculate the group average, but WITHOUT each row's > value of x. Is there an easy way to do this? I'm sure I'm missing > something obvious here, but for the life of me I can't figure it > out. > > Thanks! > -- > Casey A. Klofstad > University of Miami > Department of Political Science > Coral Gables, FL > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://moya.bus.miami.edu/~cklofstad > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm ______________________________________________ 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.