I'd suggest the 'data.table' package. That is one of the prime uses it was created for.
Pat On 25/12/2012 16:34, Martin Batholdy wrote:
Hi, I need to aggregate rows of a data.frame by computing the mean for rows with the same factor-level on one factor-variable; here is the sample code: x <- data.frame(rep(letters,2), rnorm(52), rnorm(52), rnorm(52)) aggregate(x, list(x[,1]), mean) Now my problem is, that the actual data-set is much bigger (120 rows and approximately 100.000 columns) – and it takes very very long (actually at some point I just stopped it). Is there anything that can be done to make the aggregate routine more efficient? Or is there a different approach that would work faster? Thanks for any suggestions! ______________________________________________ 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.
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