Thank you very much Josh, I guess you`re right. So this is an example: data frame 1 has 2 columns and 10 rows. The first column is "score" a variable indicating the number of goals scored by a football team score<-c(1,2,0,2,1,1,3,2,1,0), column 2 contains the football "teams " where teams<-c(a,b,c,d,e,a,b,c,d,e). Data frame 2 has the following variables: score<-c(2,3,1,0,0,0,4,2,1,2) and "teams"<-c(b,c,d,e,f,b,c,d,e,f). What I need is to create a vector "alfa"<-numeric(10) where the first element contains the mean of the number of goals scored by team b in the previous season, the second element contains the mean of the number of goals scored by team c in the previous season and so on. In correspondance of team f, the average of the whole score vector of the previous season. alfa should be (2.5, 1, 1.5, 0.5, 1.3, 2.5, 1, 1.5, 0.5, 1.3) The problem arises because "f" doesnt appear in the first data frame as it replaced "a". Hope the issue is more understandable now. Thanks a lot! alberto -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/conditional-mean-between-two-data-frames-with-different-levels-tp3049010p3049171.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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