Try this:

aggregate(DF[c('data', 'data2')], DF[ 'years'], FUN = sum, na.rm = TRUE)
aggregate(DF[c('data', 'data2')], list(as.character(factor(DF[, 'years'],
labels = c('5-7', '5-7', '5-7', 8)))), FUN = sum, na.rm = TRUE)

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 3:29 AM, steven mosher <moshersteven@gmail.com>wrote:

> I have a 43MB dataframe ( 5 variables) and I'm trying to summarize subsets
> of the data.
> I've RTFM ( not very clear) and looked at a variety of samples but cant
> seem
> to figure out
> how to make these functions work.
>
> A sample of what I want to do would be this:
>
> ids<-seq(1,50)
>  years<-c(rep(5,10),rep(6,10),rep(7,10),rep(8,20))
>  data<-c(rep(23.2,7),rep(14.2,17),rep(29.2,6),rep(13.4,10),rep(16.3,5), NA,
> rep(40,4))
> data2<-c(rep(22.2,5),rep(13.2,8),NA, rep(29.8,16),rep(12.4,10),rep(16.3,5),
> rep(38,5))
>  DF<-data.frame(ids,years,data,data2)
>
> That will give you a dataframe that is a good analog of what I have. i
> would like to calculate means
> ( with NA removed na.rm) for each level of years.
>
>          data  data2
> 5         xx.     yy.
> 6         xx     yz
> 7         ...     ,,,
> 8         ..      ...
>
> And then things like this:
>
> 5-7 :   xx     yy
> 8   :    xy     zz
>
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