This is a relatively common question so I don't want to be voted down for asking something that has been asked before. I will explain as I go along the steps I took to answer this question using StackOver Flow and other sources so that you can see that I have made attempts to solve it without solving a question.
I have a set of values as below:
O P Q "R" Z
6307 586 92.07 1.34
3578 195 94.83 6.00
3147 234 93.08 4.29
3852 227 94.43 15.00
3843 171 95.74 5.10
3511 179 95.15 7.18
6446 648 90.87 1.44
4501 414 91.58 0.38
3435 212 94.19 6.23
I want to take the average of the first six values in row "R" and then put that average in the sixth column in the sixth row of Z as such:
O P Q "R" Z
6307 586 92.07 1.34
3578 195 94.83 6.00
3147 234 93.08 4.29
3852 227 94.43 15.00
3843 171 95.74 5.10
3511 179 95.15 7.18 6.49
6446 648 90.87 1.44
4501 414 91.58 0.38
3435 212 94.19 6.23
414 414 91.58 3.49
212 212 94.19 11.78
231 231 93.44 -1.59 3.6
191 191 94.59 2.68
176 176 91.45 .75
707 707 91.96 2.68
792 420 90.95 0.75
598 598 92.15 7.45
763 763 90.66 -4.02
652 652 91.01 3.75
858 445 58.43 2.30 2.30
I have utilized the following formula I obtained
=AVERAGE(OFFSET(R1510,COUNTA(R:R)-6,0,6,1))
but I received an answer that was different from what I obtained by simply taking the average of the six previous cells as such:
=AVERAGE(R1505:R1510)
I then tried the following code from a Stack OverFlow (excel averaging every 10 rows) conversation that was tangentially similar to what I wanted
=AVERAGE(INDEX(R:R,1+6*(ROW()-ROW($B$1))):INDEX(R:R,10*(ROW()- ROW($B$1)+1)))
but I was unable to get an answer that resembled what I got from taking a rote
==AVERAGE(R1517:R1522)
I also found another approach in the following but was unable to accurately change the coding (F3 to R1510, for example)
=AVERAGE(OFFSET(F3,COUNTA($R$1510:$R$1517)-1,,-6,))
Doing so gave me a negative number for a clearly positive set of data. It was -6.95.