Re: [R] finding unique and max value from a data.frame

2008-10-23 Thread jim holtman
x2,by =list(myx$x1),max) > Error in Summary.factor(c(4L, 1L), na.rm = FALSE) : > max not meaningful for factors > > Thank you. > > > --- On Thu, 10/23/08, jim holtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: jim holtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: [R

Re: [R] finding unique and max value from a data.frame

2008-10-23 Thread Srinivas Iyyer
t meaningful for factors Thank you. --- On Thu, 10/23/08, jim holtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: jim holtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [R] finding unique and max value from a data.frame > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thursday,

Re: [R] finding unique and max value from a data.frame

2008-10-23 Thread jim holtman
?aggregate x1 x2 1 a 4 2 b 3 3 c 2 4 a 1 5 c 2 6 f 3 7 g 4 8 f 5 > aggregate(x$x2, list(x$x1), max) Group.1 x 1 a 4 2 b 3 3 c 2 4 f 5 5 g 4 > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Srinivas Iyyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi group, > > How can I ide

[R] finding unique and max value from a data.frame

2008-10-23 Thread Srinivas Iyyer
Hi group, How can I identify an element with max value among duplicated elements all in a data frame Example: > x1 x1 x2 1 a 4 2 b 3 3 c 2 4 a 1 5 c 2 6 f 3 7 g 4 8 f 5 I want to be able to get a data frame with all unique(x1) with max value x1 x2 1 a 4 2 b 3 3 c 2