2012/3/25 Skála, Zdeněk (INCOMA GfK) <zdenek.sk...@gfk.com>:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a question that is probably pretty stupid, so apologies in advance...
>
> I do a simple
>
>> mydata.tab <- by(my.data.frame, my.data.frame$category, colMeans)
>
> ...works fine, but I need to output the results to some "flat" file (kind of
> table) to work with it in Excel etc.
>
> So I am doing now
>
>> capture.output(data.frame(unlist(mydata.tab)), file="mydata.txt")
>
> ...and process the result in Excel.
> Do you know a more pretty way to do this task? Perhaps something other than
> 'by()' to make a table of colMeans?
>
Try this:
do.call("rbind", by(iris[-5], iris[[5]], colMeans))
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