[R] taking daily modes from hourly data

[maria cabello]

Dear all,
I have a data frame (datos) of hourly wind speed and direction with 4columns (1st date, 2nd hour, 3rd wind speed and 4rth wind direction). I have been able to do the daily mean of the wind speed, but when I try to get the more frequent wind direction of every day, it doesn't work. I have tried to do it with aggregate function, but it only works for mean, max, min...

mean_wind<- aggregate(datos[range_of_dates,col_wind_speed], 
list(date=format(as.Date(datos[range_of_dates,col_dates],"%d/%m/%Y"),"%d/%m/%Y")),
 FUN=mean, na.rm=TRUE)  #it works perfectly

mode_wind<- aggregate(datos[range_of_dates,col_wind_direction], list(date=format(as.Date(datos[range_of_dates,col_dates],"%d/%m/%Y"),"%d/%m/%Y")), FUN=mode)  #it tells me "numeric"

Can anyone help me? My data have not the same length for each day, I mean, for example it is possible that for 1st of January I have 20 hours of data, but for the 2nd of January I have 24, or the 3rd of January I have 18...so I need to aggregate the data to calculate the mean and the mode from the column of my date...
Thanks in advance
María



 		 	   		  
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