[R] putting stuff into bins...

[Stefano Calza]

I don't know about such a function, but

tapply(data,cut(data,breaks),what to do)

should give you what you need.

HIH

Ciao,
Stefano

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 12:44:35PM +0100, Federico Calboli wrote:
<Federico>Hi All,
<Federico>
<Federico>I have a vector of data, a vector of bin breakpoints and I want to put my data 
<Federico>in the bins and then extract fanciful informations like the mean value of each bin.
<Federico>
<Federico>I know I can write my own function, but I would have thought that R should have 
<Federico>somewhere a function that took as arguments something like (data, breaks, what 
<Federico>to do with the data in the bins). I surey could not find it trawling the R-help 
<Federico>archives though.
<Federico>
<Federico>If such a function exists I'd be grateful to anyone pointing it out to me.
<Federico>
<Federico>Cheers,
<Federico>
<Federico>Fede
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