[R] putting stuff into bins...

[Peter Dalgaard]

Federico Calboli <f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk> writes:

> Hi All,
> 
> I have a vector of data, a vector of bin breakpoints and I want to put my data 
> in the bins and then extract fanciful informations like the mean value of each bin.
> 
> I know I can write my own function, but I would have thought that R should have 
> somewhere a function that took as arguments something like (data, breaks, what 
> to do with the data in the bins). I surey could not find it trawling the R-help 
> archives though.
> 
> If such a function exists I'd be grateful to anyone pointing it out to me.


cut, split+lapply, aggregate, by

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