Hi, I have what I think is a fairly straightforward problem. I've looked through the FAQ's and mailing lists but have been unable to identify a solution, probably because I don't understand the language well enough.
I have a set of data d, with 3 columns as shown, I want to sort the data Group, mean(Value by Label). I know that this can be done for one level, say Label, using factor() but I cannot see how to extend that. I have included the code to create the data.frame below and would greatly appreciate a solution or a link to a similar problem that has already been solved in the mailing list. Value Label Group 19 Big A 29 Big A 39 Big A 55 Small D 33 Small D 11 Small D 55 Small D 66 Small D 11 Small D 2 Big C 3 Big C 3 Big C 3 Big C 3 Big C 3 Big C 3 Big C 3 Small B 2 Small B 5 Small B 6 Small B 5 Small B 6 Small B Value <- c(19,29,39,55,33,11,55,66,11,2,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,2,5,6,5,6) Group <- c("A","A","A","D","D","D","D","D","D", "C","C","C","C","C","C","C","B","B","B","B","B","B") Label <- c("Big","Big","Big", "Small","Small","Small","Small","Small","Small", "Big","Big","Big","Big","Big","Big","Big", "Small","Small","Small","Small","Small","Small") d <- as.data.frame(cbind(Value, Label, Group)) Thanks Stephen Barry -- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Wollongong Northfields Ave. Wollongong, NSW. 2522 Australia ______________________________________________ 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.