我有一个有两列的数据帧。第一列包含类别,如“第一”,“第二”,“第三”,第二列有数字,表示我从“类别”中看到特定组的次数。

例如:

Category     Frequency
First        10
First        15
First        5
Second       2
Third        14
Third        20
Second       3

我想按类别对数据进行排序,并将所有频率相加:

Category     Frequency
First        30
Second       5
Third        34

在R中怎么做呢?


当前回答

当你需要在不同的列上应用不同的聚合函数(并且你必须/想要坚持以R为基底)时,我发现它非常有用(并且有效):

e.g.

假设输入如下:

DF <-                
data.frame(Categ1=factor(c('A','A','B','B','A','B','A')),
           Categ2=factor(c('X','Y','X','X','X','Y','Y')),
           Samples=c(1,2,4,3,5,6,7),
           Freq=c(10,30,45,55,80,65,50))

> DF
  Categ1 Categ2 Samples Freq
1      A      X       1   10
2      A      Y       2   30
3      B      X       4   45
4      B      X       3   55
5      A      X       5   80
6      B      Y       6   65
7      A      Y       7   50

我们要按1类和2类进行分组,并计算Freq的样本和均值。 下面是使用ave的一个可能的解决方案:

# create a copy of DF (only the grouping columns)
DF2 <- DF[,c('Categ1','Categ2')]

# add sum of Samples by Categ1,Categ2 to DF2 
# (ave repeats the sum of the group for each row in the same group)
DF2$GroupTotSamples <- ave(DF$Samples,DF2,FUN=sum)

# add mean of Freq by Categ1,Categ2 to DF2 
# (ave repeats the mean of the group for each row in the same group)
DF2$GroupAvgFreq <- ave(DF$Freq,DF2,FUN=mean)

# remove the duplicates (keep only one row for each group)
DF2 <- DF2[!duplicated(DF2),]

结果:

> DF2
  Categ1 Categ2 GroupTotSamples GroupAvgFreq
1      A      X               6           45
2      A      Y               9           40
3      B      X               7           50
6      B      Y               6           65

其他回答

library(tidyverse)

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

count(x, Category, wt = Frequency)

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

几年后,只是为了添加另一个简单的基本R解决方案,由于某种原因这里没有给出——xtabs

xtabs(Frequency ~ Category, df)
# Category
# First Second  Third 
#    30      5     34 

或者你想要回数据帧

as.data.frame(xtabs(Frequency ~ Category, df))
#   Category Freq
# 1    First   30
# 2   Second    5
# 3    Third   34

使用cast代替reccast(注意'Frequency'现在是'value')

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

install.packages("reshape")

result<-cast(df, Category ~ . ,fun.aggregate=sum)

得到:

Category (all)
First     30
Second    5
Third     34

如果x是一个包含你的数据的数据框架,那么下面的代码将完成你想要的:

require(reshape)
recast(x, Category ~ ., fun.aggregate=sum)