A variation is to remove Well and then we can use dot to refer to the remaining columns.
aggregate(cbind(OD, ODnorm) ~ . , subset(df, select = - Well), mean) On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 8:32 AM Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.lu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > I have a data frame with different groups (Time, Target, Conc) and > each entry has a triplicate value of the measurements OD and ODnorm. > How can I merge the triplicates into a single mean value? > I tried the following: > ``` > df = data.frame(Time=rep(1, 9), Well=paste("A", 1:9, sep=""), > OD=c(666, 815, 815, 702, 739, 795, 657, 705, 663), > Target=rep("BACT", 9), > Conc=c(1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3), > ODnorm=c(9, 158, 158, 45, 82, 138, 0, 48, 6), > stringsAsFactors = FALSE) > aggregate(.~ODnorm, df, mean) > > > aggregate(.~ODnorm, df, mean) > ODnorm Time Well OD Target Conc > 1 0 NA NA NA NA NA > 2 6 NA NA NA NA NA > 3 9 NA NA NA NA NA > 4 45 NA NA NA NA NA > 5 48 NA NA NA NA NA > 6 82 NA NA NA NA NA > 7 138 NA NA NA NA NA > 8 158 NA NA NA NA NA > > aggregate(cbind(Time, Target, Conc) ~ ODnorm, df, mean) > ODnorm Time Target Conc > 1 0 NA NA NA > 2 6 NA NA NA > 3 9 NA NA NA > 4 45 NA NA NA > 5 48 NA NA NA > 6 82 NA NA NA > 7 138 NA NA NA > 8 158 NA NA NA > ``` > > Thank you. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.