Hi Ben,

let me suggest some background reading - Peter Dalgaard's  or Phil
Spector's book will set you up with what you need.  You can also read one
of the many free, contributed sets of notes kept on CRAN.

I hope that this helps

Andrew


On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Benjamin Gillespie <gybrg@leeds.ac.uk>wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I hope you can help me with this (probably) simple query:
>
> I have a data frame:
>
> --------------------------
>
> a=c(1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2)
> b=c(1,1,1,2,3,4,1,1,2,2,3,4)
> c=c(400,200,300,100,500,300,200,100,500,400,200,100)
>
>
> data=data.frame(a=a,b=b,c=c)
>
> --------------------------
>
> And I would like to get the following output:
>
> --------------------------
>
>         b
> a       1       2       3       4
> 1       900     100     500     300
> 2       300     900     200     100
>
> --------------------------
>
> The values in the output represent the sum of values "c" in data frame
> "data", for each "a" and "b" combination.
>
> For example, where "a" = 1 and "b" = 1, the output is 400+200+300 = 900.
>
> Please would anyone be able to provide a script to create my desired
> output?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Ben Gillespie
> Research Postgraduate
>
> School of Geography
> University of Leeds
> Leeds
> LS2 9JT
>
>
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