[R] Can the by() function return a single column?

Vassilis vdimitrakas at gmail.com
Wed Dec 15 19:10:05 CET 2010


Hi Gerrit, 

This does exactly what I want, thank you very much! 

Even more, I notice that ave() uses the split/unsplit functions under the
hood, which are very useful tools as they allow to apply even more
complicated functions on a factor-by-factor basis. 

best,

Vassilis
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