getMode: compute the mode of column within a data frame

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compute the mode of column within a data frame

Description

this function computes the modal value of a specified column of a data frame

Usage

getMode(df, col, side = c("lower", "upper"))

Arguments

df	a data frame
col	a column name or column number
side	in case of a tie, which side should be returned

Value

a vector

Author(s)

Tim Appelhans, Florian Detsch

Examples

df <- data.frame(a = c(1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), 
                 b = c("a", "b", "c", "c", "d", "e", "e", "e", "e", "f", "g"))

getMode(df, "a")
getMode(df, "a", "upper")
getMode(df, 2)

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