Hello! I have a data frame with a factor and a numeric variable:
x<-data.frame(factor=c("b","b","d","d","e","e"),values=c(1,2,10,20,100,200)) For each level of "factor" - I would like to divide each value of "values" by the mean of "values" that corresponds to the level of "factor" In other words, I would like to get a new variable that is equal to: 1/1.5 2/1.5 10/15 20/15 100/150 200/150 I realize I could do it through tapply starting with: factor.level.means<-tapply(x$values,x$factor,mean) ... etc. But it seems clunky to me. Is there a more elegant way of doing it? Thanks a lot! -- Dimitri Liakhovitski ______________________________________________ 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.