On Jul 29, 2015, at 7:37 PM, Jon BR wrote:
> Hello,
> I've recently discovered the helpful dplyr package. I'm using the
> 'aggregate' function as such:
The `aggregate` function is part of base-R:
> bevs <- data.frame(cbind(name = c("Bill", "Mary"), drink = c("coffee",
> "tea", "cocoa", "water"), cost = seq(1:8), sex = c("male","female")));
> bevs$cost <- seq(1:8)
>
>> bevs
> name drink cost sex
> 1 Bill coffee 1 male
> 2 Mary tea 2 female
> 3 Bill cocoa 3 male
> 4 Mary water 4 female
> 5 Bill coffee 5 male
> 6 Mary tea 6 female
> 7 Bill cocoa 7 male
> 8 Mary water 8 female
>>
>
>> aggregate(cost ~ name + drink, data = bevs, sum)
> name drink cost
> 1 Bill cocoa 10
> 2 Bill coffee 6
> 3 Mary tea 8
> 4 Mary water 12
>
> My issue is that I would like to keep a column for 'sex', for which there
> is a 1:1 mapping with 'name', such that every time 'Bill' appears, it is
> always 'male'.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this, with or without dplyr?
As pointed out you have not yet demonstrated any dplyr functions.
> The
> ideal command(s) would produce this:
>
> name drink cost sex
> 1 Bill cocoa 10 male
> 2 Bill coffee 6 male
> 3 Mary tea 8 female
> 4 Mary water 12 female
Doesn't this (glaringly obvious?) approach succeed?
> aggregate(cost ~ name + drink+sex, data = bevs, sum)
name drink sex cost
1 Mary tea female 8
2 Mary water female 12
3 Bill cocoa male 10
4 Bill coffee male 6
>
>
> I would be thankful for any suggestion!
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
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Please learn to post in plain text.
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
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