HI, You can also try this: dat1<-read.table(text=" gene_id sample_1 sample_2 FL_EARLY FL_LATE 763938 Eucgr.A00054 fl_S1E fl_S1L 13.170800 22.2605 763979 Eucgr.A00101 fl_S1E fl_S1L 0.367960 14.1202 1273243 Eucgr.A00101 fl_S2 fl_S1L 0.356625 14.1202 764169 Eucgr.A00350 fl_S1E fl_S1L 7.381070 43.9275 1273433 Eucgr.A00350 fl_S2 fl_S1L 10.674500 43.9275 1273669 Eucgr.A00650 fl_S2 fl_S1L 33.669100 50.0169 764480 Eucgr.A00744 fl_S1E fl_S1L 132.429000 747.2770 1273744 Eucgr.A00744 fl_S2 fl_S1L 142.659000 747.2770 764595 Eucgr.A00890 fl_S1E fl_S1L 2.937760 14.9647 764683 Eucgr.A00990 fl_S1E fl_S1L 8.681250 48.5492 1273947 Eucgr.A00990 fl_S2 fl_S1L 10.553300 48.5492 764710 Eucgr.A01020 fl_S1E fl_S1L 0.000000 57.9273 1273974 Eucgr.A01020 fl_S2 fl_S1L 0.000000 57.9273 764756 Eucgr.A01073 fl_S1E fl_S1L 8.504710 101.1870 1274020 Eucgr.A01073 fl_S2 fl_S1L 5.400010 101.1870 764773 Eucgr.A01091 fl_S1E fl_S1L 3.448910 15.7756 764826 Eucgr.A01152 fl_S1E fl_S1L 69.565700 198.2320 764831 Eucgr.A01158 fl_S1E fl_S1L 7.265640 30.9565 764845 Eucgr.A01172 fl_S1E fl_S1L 3.248020 16.9127 764927 Eucgr.A01269 fl_S1E fl_S1L 18.710200 76.6918 ",sep="",header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
do.call(rbind,lapply(lapply(split(dat1,dat1$gene_id),`[`,4:5),colMeans)) FL_EARLY FL_LATE #Eucgr.A00054 13.1708000 22.2605 #Eucgr.A00101 0.3622925 14.1202 #Eucgr.A00350 9.0277850 43.9275 #Eucgr.A00650 33.6691000 50.0169 #Eucgr.A00744 137.5440000 747.2770 #Eucgr.A00890 2.9377600 14.9647 #Eucgr.A00990 9.6172750 48.5492 #Eucgr.A01020 0.0000000 57.9273 #Eucgr.A01073 6.9523600 101.1870 #Eucgr.A01091 3.4489100 15.7756 #Eucgr.A01152 69.5657000 198.2320 #Eucgr.A01158 7.2656400 30.9565 #Eucgr.A01172 3.2480200 16.9127 #Eucgr.A01269 18.7102000 76.6918 In addition to aggregate(), ddply() etc. library(data.table) dat2<-data.table(dat1) dat3<-dat2[,list(FL_EARLY=mean(FL_EARLY),FL_LATE=mean(FL_LATE)),list(gene_id)] #aggregate() dat4<-with(dat1,aggregate(cbind(FL_EARLY,FL_LATE),list(gene_id),FUN=mean)) colnames(dat4)<-colnames(dat1)[c(1,4,5)] #ddply() library(plyr) dat5<-ddply(dat1,.(gene_id),colwise(mean,c("FL_EARLY","FL_LATE"))) A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vining, Kelly" <kelly.vin...@oregonstate.edu> To: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org> Cc: Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 11:41 AM Subject: [R] average duplicated rows? Dear useRs, I have a slightly complicated data structure and am stuck trying to extract what I need. I'm pasting an example of this data below. In some cases, there are duplicates in the "gene_id" column because there are two different "sample 1" values for a given "sample 2" value. Where these duplicates exist, I need to average the corresponding "FL_EARLY" values and retain the "FL_LATE" value and replace those two rows with a row containing the "FL_EARLY" average so that I no longer have any "gene_id" duplicates. Seems like this is a job for some version of the apply function, but searching and puzzling over this has not gotten me anywhere. Any help will be much appreciated! Example data: gene_id sample_1 sample_2 FL_EARLY FL_LATE 763938 Eucgr.A00054 fl_S1E fl_S1L 13.170800 22.2605 763979 Eucgr.A00101 fl_S1E fl_S1L 0.367960 14.1202 1273243 Eucgr.A00101 fl_S2 fl_S1L 0.356625 14.1202 764169 Eucgr.A00350 fl_S1E fl_S1L 7.381070 43.9275 1273433 Eucgr.A00350 fl_S2 fl_S1L 10.674500 43.9275 1273669 Eucgr.A00650 fl_S2 fl_S1L 33.669100 50.0169 764480 Eucgr.A00744 fl_S1E fl_S1L 132.429000 747.2770 1273744 Eucgr.A00744 fl_S2 fl_S1L 142.659000 747.2770 764595 Eucgr.A00890 fl_S1E fl_S1L 2.937760 14.9647 764683 Eucgr.A00990 fl_S1E fl_S1L 8.681250 48.5492 1273947 Eucgr.A00990 fl_S2 fl_S1L 10.553300 48.5492 764710 Eucgr.A01020 fl_S1E fl_S1L 0.000000 57.9273 1273974 Eucgr.A01020 fl_S2 fl_S1L 0.000000 57.9273 764756 Eucgr.A01073 fl_S1E fl_S1L 8.504710 101.1870 1274020 Eucgr.A01073 fl_S2 fl_S1L 5.400010 101.1870 764773 Eucgr.A01091 fl_S1E fl_S1L 3.448910 15.7756 764826 Eucgr.A01152 fl_S1E fl_S1L 69.565700 198.2320 764831 Eucgr.A01158 fl_S1E fl_S1L 7.265640 30.9565 764845 Eucgr.A01172 fl_S1E fl_S1L 3.248020 16.9127 764927 Eucgr.A01269 fl_S1E fl_S1L 18.710200 76.6918 --Kelly V. [[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.