Thank you very much for all those solutions.

On 11-12-12, David Winsemius  <dwinsemius@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> On Dec 11, 2012, at 3:17 AM, Swagath Navin wrote:
> 
> >Dear all,
> >
> >I have a big file containing latitude points(-10 to 80) and corresponding values.
> >Example data
> >
> >Lat=c(69.48134, 69.49439, 69.50736, 69.52026, 69.52438, 69.53308, 69.53746, 69.54365, 69.54582, 69.6884, 69.69272, 69.998, 70.00055, 70.00106, 70.00295, 70.00308, 70.00363, 70.00427, 70.00665, 70.00906, 70.01049, 70.01053, 70.01075, 70.01208, 70.01236, 70.01418, 70.01452, 70.01646, 70.01983, 70.0209, 70.02298, 70.02386, 70.02533, 70.02534, 70.02856, 70.0291, 70.02983, 70.03091, 70.03267, 70.03423)
> >
> >Value=c(0.18917075, 0.18856758, 0.1877328, 0.18664664, 0.18871901, 0.18528864, 0.18797649, 0.18999862, 0.1836383, 0.15414046, 0.18542965, 0.13914858, 0.1654665, 0.12885736, 0.18935319, 0.1912378, 0.14910094, 0.17590007, 0.18369354, 0.12546185, 0.16096813, 0.18851039, 0.14388486, 0.19098477, 0.17252013, 0.12965086, 0.12256515, 0.18159349, 0.15608113, 0.18742996, 0.13858418, 0.16865459, 0.19058037, 0.12531143, 0.19189732, 0.12019097, 0.1790819, 0.15086053, 0.18607724,  0.13330366)
> >
> >dframe=data.frame(Lat, Value)
> >
> >i would like to find latitudinal mean such that my output looks like the below:
> >
> >Lat Value
> >69 0.18
> >70 0.16
> 
> ?trunc   # some people prefer floor()
> ?tapply
> 
> -- 
> 
> David Winsemius, MD
> Alameda, CA, USA
> 
> 
>

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