[R] Newbie: how to calculate group averagege?

[Sven Garbade]

Thanks a lot, this is exactly what I need.

Bye,

Sven

Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> 
> Sven Garbade <garbade at psy.uni-muenchen.de> writes:
> 
> > For each combinations of the factors are 6 values of rt. I need the mean
> > of the six rt values for each factor combination. I´ve tried the ave()
> > function:
> >
> > > ave(rt, zf, xf, yf)
> >
> > but it returns a lot of NAs. Is there another r-function I´ve overlooked
> > or must I write my own function?
> 
> I think you're looking for
> 
> tapply(rt,list(zf, xf, yf), mean, na.rm=T)
> 
> alternatively,
> 
> ave(rt, zf, xf, yf, FUN=function(x)mean(x,na.rm=T))
> 
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