[R-sig-ME] Aggregate binary response variable

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> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:33:21 +0000
> From: Graham Leask <grahamleask at btinternet.com>
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> Dear list
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> I have a response variable coded 0/1 i.e. a binary response. There are  
> 20,000 individual responses that I would like to aggregate into  
> numbers of each category (i.e. 0/1) by
> group (350 different groups) and by month (there are several hundred  
> responses per month.
>
> What is the simplest way to perform this operation in R?
>
>   


Hello Graham,

tapply is your best friend here.

There will be plenty of examples online...and if you can't find it..see 
Section 4.2 in our "Beginner's Guide to R" book...(and change mean by sum)

Happy New Year.
Alain

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Zuur, AF, Ieno, EN, Walker, N, Saveliev, AA, and Smith, GM. Springer.
http://www.springer.com/life+sci/ecology/book/978-0-387-87457-9


3. A Beginner's Guide to R (2009).
Zuur, AF, Ieno, EN, Meesters, EHWG. Springer
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