Hi, I guess this is what you wanted: dat1<-read.table(text=" Area Percent 456 0
3400 10 79 25 56 18 467 0 67 67 839 85 1120 0 3482 85 ",sep="",header=TRUE) aggregate(dat1$Percent, list(Area = dat1[,"Area"],Range=cut(dat1 $Percent,breaks=c(-Inf,0, 25, 50, 75, 100), labels=c("<=0", "0-25", "25-50", "50-75", ">75"))),function(x) x) # Area Range x #1 456 <=0 0 #2 467 <=0 0 #3 1120 <=0 0 #4 56 0-25 18 #5 79 0-25 25 #6 3400 0-25 10 #7 67 50-75 67 #8 839 >75 85 #9 3482 >75 85 A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Sapana Lohani <lohani.sap...@ymail.com> To: R help <r-help@r-project.org> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 5:25 PM Subject: [R] add values in one column getting range from other column Hi, My dataframe has two columns one with area and other with percent. How can i add the areas that are within a range of percentage?? My dataframe looks like Area Percent 456 0 3400 10 79 25 56 18 467 0 67 67 839 85 1120 0 3482 85 I want to add the area for values whose percent is <0, 0-25, 25-50, 50-75, >75. How can I do that??? [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.