Is there a "more efficient/elegant" way to obtain the result "z" below.
a <- c('pink','pink','blue','blue','gold','gold') b <- c(5,8,9,12,7,4) agg <- aggregate(x=b,by=list(a), FUN='mean') m <- match(a, agg[,1]) z <- agg[m,2] z [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.