Is this what you are after? Send your sample data using 'dput/dump' next time -- easier to read in:
> x <- read.table(text = "License Species Year HD Quota L.R.QTA > L.R.QTA Success Surplus + Permit Elk 1999 101 50 87 90 151 10 + Permit Deer 1999 101 50 20 10 151 8 + Permit Elk 1999 101 50 87 90 20 9 + Permit Elk 1999 101 50 60 20 151 10 + A9 Elk 1999 101 40 87 30 241 10 + A9 Elk 1999 101 20 50 50 154 8 + A9 Deer 2000 101 50 87 70 161 10 + A9 Deer 2000 101 30 80 70 181 16 + DeerB Elk 1999 201 50 87 70 161 19 + DeerB Elk 1999 201 60 87 90 151 18" + , header = TRUE + , as.is = TRUE + ) > > aggregate(x[, c("Quota", "L.R.QTA", "L.R.QTA.1", "Success", "Surplus")] + , list(x$Year, x$HD) + , FUN = sum) Group.1 Group.2 Quota L.R.QTA L.R.QTA.1 Success Surplus 1 1999 101 260 391 290 868 55 2 2000 101 80 167 140 342 26 3 1999 201 110 174 160 312 37 > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 12:17 PM, steven.hazen <steven.ha...@msu.montana.edu> wrote: > Currently I have a data set looking like: > License Species Year HD Quota L.R.QTA L.R.QTA Success > Surplus > Permit Elk 1999 101 50 87 90 > 151 10 > Permit Deer 1999 101 50 20 10 > 151 8 > Permit Elk 1999 101 50 87 90 > 20 9 > Permit Elk 1999 101 50 60 20 > 151 10 > A9 Elk 1999 101 40 87 > 30 241 10 > A9 Elk 1999 101 20 50 > 50 154 8 > A9 Deer 2000 101 50 87 70 > 161 10 > A9 Deer 2000 101 30 80 70 > 181 16 > DeerB Elk 1999 201 50 87 70 > 161 19 > DeerB Elk 1999 201 60 87 90 > 151 18 > > This dataset goes from 1999-2010 and I'm trying to sum all variables for by > hunting district and year. Therefore instead of having individual stats by > each HD I want to sum the stats that correspond to say year 1999 and HD 101. > Does anyone know an easy/quick way to do this? I'm a new user of R and Any > help would be much appreciated. > > Steve > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Summing-Data-in-R-tp4237650p4237650.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. ______________________________________________ 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.