agg: Aggregate an Atomic Vector by Group

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Aggregate an Atomic Vector by Group

Description

agg evaluates a function separately for each group and combines the results back together into an atomic vector of data.frame that is returned. Depending on the argument rep, the results of fun are repeated for each element of x in the group (TRUE) or only once for each group (FALSE). Depending on the argument rtn.grp, the return object is a data.frame and the groups within grp are included in the data.frame as columns (TRUE) or the return object is an atomic vector and the groups are the names (FALSE).

Usage

agg(x, grp, rep = TRUE, rtn.grp = !rep, sep = "_", fun, ...)

Arguments

x	atomic vector.
grp	atomic vector or list of atomic vectors (e.g., data.frame) specifying the groups. The atomic vector(s) must be the length of x or else an error is returned.
rep	logical vector of length 1 specifying whether the result of fun should be repeated for every instance of the group in x (TRUE) or only once for each group (FALSE).
rtn.grp	logical vector of length 1 specifying whether the groups (i.e., grp) should be included in the return object as columns. The default is the opposite of rep as traditionally it is most important to return the group columns when rep = FALSE.
sep	character vector of length 1 specifying what string should separate different group values when naming the return object. This argument is only used if grp is a list of atomic vectors (e.g., data.frame) AND rep = FALSE AND rtn.grp = FALSE.
fun	function to use for aggregation. This function is expected to return an atomic vector of length 1.
...	additional named arguments to fun.

Details

If rep = TRUE, then agg calls ave; if rep = FALSE, then agg calls aggregate.

Value

result of fun applied to x for each group within grp. The structure of the return object depends on the arguments rep and rtn.grp:

If rep = TRUE and rtn.grp = TRUE:

then the return object is a data.frame with nrow = nrow(data) where the first columns are grp and the last column is the result of fun. If grp is not a list with names, then its colnames will be "Group.1", "Group.2", "Group.3" etc. similar to aggregate's return object. The colname for the result of fun will be "x".

If rep = TRUE and rtn.grp = FALSE:

then the return object is an atomic vector with length = length(x) where the values are the result of fun and the names = names(x).

If rep = FALSE and rtn.grp = TRUE:

then the return object is a data.frame with nrow = length(levels(interaction(grp))) where the first columns are the unique group combinations in grp and the last column is the result of fun. If grp is not a list with names, then its colnames will be "Group.1", "Group.2", "Group.3" etc. similar to aggregate's return object. The colname for the result of fun will be "x".

If rep = FALSE and rtn.grp = FALSE:

then the return object is an atomic vector with length length(levels(interaction(grp))) where the values are the result of fun and the names are each group value pasted together by sep if there are multiple grouping variables within grp (i.e., is.list(grp) && length(grp) > 2).

See Also

aggs, agg_dfm, ave, aggregate,

Examples

# one grouping variable
agg(x = airquality$"Solar.R", grp = airquality$"Month", fun = mean)
agg(x = airquality$"Solar.R", grp = airquality$"Month", fun = mean,
   na.rm = TRUE) # ignoring missing values
agg(x = setNames(airquality$"Solar.R", nm = row.names(airquality)), grp = airquality$"Month",
   fun = mean, na.rm = TRUE) # keeps the names in the return object
agg(x = airquality$"Solar.R", grp = airquality$"Month", rep = FALSE,
   fun = mean, na.rm = TRUE) # do NOT repeat aggregated values
agg(x = airquality$"Solar.R", grp = airquality$"Month", rep = FALSE, rtn.grp = FALSE,
   fun = mean, na.rm = TRUE) # groups are the names of the returned atomic vector

# two grouping variables
tmp_nm <- c("vs","am") # Roxygen2 doesn't like a c() within a []
agg(x = mtcars$"mpg", grp = mtcars[tmp_nm], rep = TRUE, fun = sd)
agg(x = mtcars$"mpg", grp = mtcars[tmp_nm], rep = FALSE,
   fun = sd) # do NOT repeat aggregated values
agg(x = mtcars$"mpg", grp = mtcars[tmp_nm], rep = FALSE, rtn.grp = FALSE,
   fun = sd) # groups are the names of the returned atomic vector
agg(x = mtcars$"mpg", grp = mtcars[tmp_nm], rep = FALSE, rtn.grp = FALSE,
   sep = ".", fun = sd) # change the separater for naming

# error messages
## Not run: 
   agg(x = airquality$"Solar.R", grp = mtcars[tmp_nm]) # error returned
   # b/c  atomic vectors within \code{grp} not having the same length as \code{x}

## End(Not run)

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