by function in R

by function in R

by
Apply A Function To A Data Frame Split By Factors
Function by is an object-oriented wrapper for tapply applied to data frames.

usage

by(data, INDICES, FUN, …, simplify = TRUE)

Example

7男3，通过下面的函数可以返回的是：男生的平均年龄，女生的平均年龄by(age, gender, function(x), mean(x))

p <- read.csv('age.csv', header = F)
p[1,1]=c("female")
colnames(p)=c("Gender","Age")
attach(p)
aver=by(Age, Gender, function(x) mean(x))
print(aver)
Gender: female[1] 27.5
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Gender: male[1] 38.57143