[Rd] aggregate() naming -- bug or feature

lmo lukemolson at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 24 21:08:33 CET 2018


Be aware that the object that aggregate returns with bar() is more complicated than you think.
str(aggregate(iris$Sepal.Length, by = list(iris$Species), FUN = bar))
'data.frame':    3 obs. of  2 variables:
 $ Group.1: Factor w/ 3 levels "setosa","versicolor",..: 1 2 3
 $ x      : num [1:3, 1:2] 5.006 5.936 6.588 0.352 0.516 ...
  ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
  .. ..$ : NULL
  .. ..$ : chr  "mean" "sd"
So you get a two column data.frame whose second column is a matrix.

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