[R] a more elegant approach to getting the majority level

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

you could try this:

x <- factor(sample(letters[1:3], 20, TRUE))
#######
tab <- table(x)
names(tab)[tab == max(tab)]


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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Dimitris Rizopoulos
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Catholic University of Leuven

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rajarshi Guha" <rxg218 at psu.edu>
To: "R" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:36 PM
Subject: [R] a more elegant approach to getting the majority level


> Hi, I have a factor and I would like to find the most frequent 
> level.
>
> I think my current approach is a bit long winded and I was wondering 
> if
> there was a more elegant way to do it:
>
> x <- factor(sample(1:0, 5,replace=TRUE))
>
> levels(x)[ which( as.logical((table(x) == max(table(x)))) == 
> TRUE ) ]
>
> (The length of x will always be an odd number, so I wont get a tie 
> in
> max())
>
> Thanks,
>
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