[R] Mode (statistics) in R?

[Mike Lawrence]

Here's a rather convoluted way of finding the mode (or, at least, the
first mode):

x = round(rnorm(100,sd=5))
my_mode = as.numeric(names(table(x))[which.max(table(x))])




On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Jason Rupert <jasonkrupert at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hopefully this is a pretty simple question:
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> Is there a function in R that calculates the "mode" of a sample?   That is, I would like to be able to determine the value that occurs the most frequently in a data set.
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> I tried the default R "mode" function, but it appears to provide a storage type or something else.
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> I tried the RSeek and some R documentation that I downloaded, but nothing seems to mention calculating the "mode".
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> Thanks again.
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