Federico Calboli schrieb: > Hi All, > > I have a vector of data, a vector of bin breakpoints and I want to put my > data > in the bins and then extract fanciful informations like the mean value of > each bin. > > I know I can write my own function, but I would have thought that R should > have > somewhere a function that took as arguments something like (data, breaks, > what > to do with the data in the bins). I surey could not find it trawling the > R-help > archives though. > > If such a function exists I'd be grateful to anyone pointing it out to me. > > Cheers, > > Fede > > The following should be of help:
"bd384" <- c(2.968, 2.097, 1.611, 3.038, 7.921, 5.476, 9.858, 1.397, 0.155, 1.301, 9.054, 1.958, 4.058, 3.918, 2.019, 3.689, 3.081, 4.229, 4.669, 2.274, 1.971, 10.379, 3.391, 2.093, 6.053, 4.196, 2.788, 4.511, 7.3, 5.856, 0.86, 2.093, 0.703, 1.182, 4.114, 2.075, 2.834, 3.698, 6.48, 2.36, 5.249, 5.1, 4.131, 0.02, 1.071, 4.455, 3.676, 2.666, 5.457, 1.046, 1.908, 3.064, 5.392, 8.393, 0.916, 9.665, 5.564, 3.599, 2.723, 2.87, 1.582, 5.453, 4.091, 3.716, 6.156, 2.039) cut(bd384,0:11) split(bd384,cut(bd384,0:11)) sapply(split(bd384,cut(bd384,0:11)),mean) D.Trenkler -- Dietrich Trenkler c/o Universitaet Osnabrueck Rolandstr. 8; D-49069 Osnabrueck, Germany email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.