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- Grouping functions (tapply, by, aggregate) and the *apply family 9 answers
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#X Income Commute Job.Growth Physicians
#1 A 26000 49.2 10.8 1987
#2 B 29300 45.3 9.5 517
#3 C 24800 39.8 8.2 592
#4 D 27900 46.8 7.6 3310
#5 E 37500 39.9 12.2 975
#6 A 26058 47.8 10.3 647
#7 B 33479 48.1 12.2 714
#8 C 28869 39.6 12.7 803
#9 D 37567 47.9 10.1 888
#10 E 30215 39.0 10.8 672
#11 A 38772 47.5 10.2 975
#12 B 34577 44.4 10.2 519
#13 C 39978 46.8 11.3 510
#14 D 34466 48.2 8.2 832
#15 E 29128 49.1 10.6 590
tapply(x$Income, x$X, mean)
# A B C D E
#30276.67 32452.00 31215.67 33311.00 32281.00
str(x$X)
# chr [1:15] "A" "B" "C" "D" "E" "A" "B" "C" "D" "E" "A" "B" "C" "D" "E"
In R Documentation,
INDEX: list of one or more factors, each of same length as X. The elements are coerced to factors by as.factor.
As I understand, it means I have to use INDEX argument as factor. In my example, although INDEX argument is not factor, the result is correctly printed.
Is this because R Documentation is wrong or I misunderstand R Documentation?
