[R] Question about R mode

[Paul Hiemstra]

djackson at miners.utep.edu wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am using R to perform certain calculations on huge amounts of data.  In short I need a function that does the mode function, ie returns the most common element.  I looked at the mode function in R but it seems to return the type of the data element you give it.  Does such a method exist?  I have tried googling this to no avail as all the results lead me back to the mode function I do not want.
>   
I googled for "R calculate mode", the first hit was this result:

http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@r-project.org/msg30197.html

this is probably what you want.

cheers,
Paul
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> Don
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