Hi,
I apologize if this topic has been discussed - I could not figure out
a good search phrase for this question.
I have a named vector x, with multiple (duplicate) names, and I would
like to obtain a (shorter) vector with non-duplicate names in which
the values are the means of the values of the
try this:
x - 1:30
names(x) - sample(LETTERS[1:5], 30, TRUE)
x
B B C E B E E D D A B A D B D C D E B D E B D A B
B A B E B
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30
x - 1:30
names(x) - sample(LETTERS[1:5], 30,