[R] group mean, minus each row's value

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

do you mean something like this:

tapply(x, g, function (y) {
    sapply(1:length(y), function (i) mean(y[-i]))
})


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Casey Klofstad" <klofstad at gmail.com>
To: <r-help at r-project.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 4:45 PM
Subject: [R] group mean, minus each row's value


>I used the following to assign each row the group average, where w is
> the new group average variable, x is the variabale to be averaged, 
> and
> g is the nominal group indicator:
>
> w <- ave(x,g)
>
> Now I want to calculate the group average, but WITHOUT each row's
> value of x. Is there an easy way to do this? I'm sure I'm missing
> something obvious here, but for the life of me I can't figure it 
> out.
>
> Thanks!
> -- 
> Casey A. Klofstad
> University of Miami
> Department of Political Science
> Coral Gables, FL
>
> klofstad at gmail.com
> http://moya.bus.miami.edu/~cklofstad
>
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