Hi, I hope this helps you. I created a small dataset: 3 replications per month for 1998:2000.
set.seed(1) dat1<-data.frame(Tahun=rep(c(98:99,00),each=36),Bahun=rep(rep(1:12,times=3),each=3), x=sample(1:500,108,replace=TRUE)) dat2<-within(dat1,{Tahun<-factor(Tahun,levels=c(98,99,0))}) agg_dt1<-aggregate(x=dat2[,3],by=dat2[,c(1,2)],FUN=sum) head(agg_dt1) # Tahun Bahun x #1 98 1 1252 #2 99 1 680 #3 0 1 687 #4 98 2 761 #5 99 2 860 #6 0 2 786 I guess this is what you wanted. In addition, you can also use ddply() with a different way of grouping: but with the same result. library(plyr) dd_dt1<-ddply(dat2,.(Tahun,Bahun),summarize, sum(x)) head(dd_dt1) # Tahun Bahun ..1 #1 98 1 1252 #2 98 2 761 #3 98 3 440 #4 98 4 597 #5 98 5 987 #6 98 6 692 tail(dd_dt1) # Tahun Bahun ..1 #31 0 7 685 #32 0 8 504 #33 0 9 633 #34 0 10 553 #35 0 11 914 #36 0 12 1039 A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Roslina Zakaria <zrosl...@yahoo.com> To: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org> Cc: Sent: Friday, October 5, 2012 8:09 PM Subject: [R] arrange data Dear r-users, I have dailly rainfall data from year 1971 to 2000. I use aggregate to form monthly rainfall data. What I don't understand is that the data for the year 2000 become on the top, instead of year 1971. Here are some codes and output: agg_dt1 <- aggregate(x=dt1[,4],by=dt1[,c(1,2)],FUN=sum) > head(agg_dt1,20); tail(agg_dt1,20) Tahun Bulan x 1 0 1 398.6 2 71 1 934.9 3 72 1 107.2 4 73 1 236.4 5 74 1 10.5 6 75 1 744.6 7 76 1 9.2 8 77 1 108.7 9 78 1 251.5 10 79 1 197.3 11 80 1 144.1 12 81 1 104.5 13 82 1 17.7 14 83 1 151.8 ... Thank you so much for your help. Roslina [[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.