[R-sig-Epi] mode of a character variable

[Peter Dalgaard]

Henrik Kallberg wrote:
> Dear All!
> I have tried to find a function for searching for the most common character set within a variable. I have not found a solution though. Maybe any smarthead out there could enlight me. To describe what i'm after the metacode looks like this:
> var
> A A
> A A
> C C
> G G
> cm<-FindModeChar(var)
> cm
> A A
> Best regards Henrik
>
>
>   
How about which.max(table(var)) ?


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