[R] SUM,COUNT,AVG

[Karl Ove Hufthammer]

Jun Shen:

> I mainly have data frames. summarize() does not seem to work with multiple
> columns from a data frame. Any suggestion? Thanks.

summarize() *does* work with multiple columns from data frames, but the 
function you use must be able to do column-wise calculations. Example:

with(iris, summarize(iris[1:4], Species, colSums, stat.name=NULL))

If there weren’t a ‘colSums’ function, you could easily accomplish the same 
thing by using apply on the ’sum’ function:

with(iris, summarize(iris[1:4], Species, function(x) apply(x,2,sum), 
stat.name=NULL))

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Karl Ove Hufthammer