Hi, R function aggregate can only take summary stats functions, can I aggregate text columns? For example, for the dataframe below,
> a <- rbind(data.frame(id=1, name='Tom', hobby='fishing'),data.frame(id=1, name='Tom', hobby='reading'),data.frame(id=2, name='Mary', hobby='reading'),data.frame(id=3, name='John', hobby='boating'),data.frame(id=2, name='Mary', hobby='running')) > a id name hobby 1 1 Tom fishing 2 1 Tom reading 3 2 Mary reading 4 3 John boating 5 2 Mary running I want output as >b id name hobbies 1 Tom fishing reading 2 Mary reading running 3 John boating Thanks, Richard [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.