对于dplyr 1.1.0及以上版本，你可以在总结中使用.by。这个快捷方式避免使用group_by，并返回一个未分组的数据帧:

library(dplyr)
x %>%  
  summarise(Frequency = sum(Frequency), .by = Category)

library(plyr)
ddply(tbl, .(Category), summarise, sum = sum(Frequency))

虽然我最近对大多数这些类型的操作都转换为dplyr，但sqldf包对于某些事情仍然非常好(恕我直言，可读性更强)。

下面是一个示例，说明如何使用sqldf回答这个问题

x <- data.frame(Category=factor(c("First", "First", "First", "Second",
                                  "Third", "Third", "Second")), 
                Frequency=c(10,15,5,2,14,20,3))

sqldf("select 
          Category
          ,sum(Frequency) as Frequency 
       from x 
       group by 
          Category")

##   Category Frequency
## 1    First        30
## 2   Second         5
## 3    Third        34

另一种解决方案是在矩阵或数据帧中按组返回和，并且简短快速:

rowsum(x$Frequency, x$Category)

从dplyr 1.0.0开始，可以使用across()函数:

df %>%
 group_by(Category) %>%
 summarise(across(Frequency, sum))

  Category Frequency
  <chr>        <int>
1 First           30
2 Second           5
3 Third           34

如果对多个变量感兴趣:

df %>%
 group_by(Category) %>%
 summarise(across(c(Frequency, Frequency2), sum))

  Category Frequency Frequency2
  <chr>        <int>      <int>
1 First           30         55
2 Second           5         29
3 Third           34        190

以及使用select helper来选择变量:

df %>%
 group_by(Category) %>%
 summarise(across(starts_with("Freq"), sum))

  Category Frequency Frequency2 Frequency3
  <chr>        <int>      <int>      <dbl>
1 First           30         55        110
2 Second           5         29         58
3 Third           34        190        380

样本数据:

df <- read.table(text = "Category Frequency Frequency2 Frequency3
                 1    First        10         10         20
                 2    First        15         30         60
                 3    First         5         15         30
                 4   Second         2          8         16
                 5    Third        14         70        140
                 6    Third        20        120        240
                 7   Second         3         21         42",
                 header = TRUE,
                 stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

再加上第三个选项:

require(doBy)
summaryBy(Frequency~Category, data=yourdataframe, FUN=sum)

编辑:这是一个非常古老的答案。现在，我建议使用group_by和来自dplyr的summarise，如@docendo answer。