下面的函数有三种形式:

method = "mode"[默认值]:计算单模态向量的模式，否则返回NA Method = "nmodes":计算vector中模式的个数 Method = "modes":列出单模态或多模态向量的所有模态

modeav <- function (x, method = "mode", na.rm = FALSE)
{
  x <- unlist(x)
  if (na.rm)
    x <- x[!is.na(x)]
  u <- unique(x)
  n <- length(u)
  #get frequencies of each of the unique values in the vector
  frequencies <- rep(0, n)
  for (i in seq_len(n)) {
    if (is.na(u[i])) {
      frequencies[i] <- sum(is.na(x))
    }
    else {
      frequencies[i] <- sum(x == u[i], na.rm = TRUE)
    }
  }
  #mode if a unimodal vector, else NA
  if (method == "mode" | is.na(method) | method == "")
  {return(ifelse(length(frequencies[frequencies==max(frequencies)])>1,NA,u[which.max(frequencies)]))}
  #number of modes
  if(method == "nmode" | method == "nmodes")
  {return(length(frequencies[frequencies==max(frequencies)]))}
  #list of all modes
  if (method == "modes" | method == "modevalues")
  {return(u[which(frequencies==max(frequencies), arr.ind = FALSE, useNames = FALSE)])}  
  #error trap the method
  warning("Warning: method not recognised.  Valid methods are 'mode' [default], 'nmodes' and 'modes'")
  return()
}

这里有另一个解决方案:

freq <- tapply(mySamples,mySamples,length)
#or freq <- table(mySamples)
as.numeric(names(freq)[which.max(freq)])

还有一个解决方案，适用于数字和字符/因子数据:

Mode <- function(x) {
  ux <- unique(x)
  ux[which.max(tabulate(match(x, ux)))]
}

在我的小机器上，它可以在大约半秒内生成并找到一个10m整数向量的模式。

如果您的数据集可能有多种模式，上述解决方案采用与which相同的方法。Max，并返回模式集中第一个出现的值。要返回所有模式，使用这个变体(来自评论中的@digEmAll):

Modes <- function(x) {
  ux <- unique(x)
  tab <- tabulate(match(x, ux))
  ux[tab == max(tab)]
}

我浏览了所有这些选项，开始想知道它们的相对特性和性能，所以我做了一些测试。如果其他人也好奇，我在这里分享我的结果。

我不想为这里发布的所有函数而烦恼，我选择了一个基于一些标准的示例:函数应该对字符、因子、逻辑和数字向量都有效，它应该适当地处理na和其他有问题的值，输出应该是“合理的”，即没有数字作为字符或其他类似的愚蠢行为。

我还添加了一个我自己的函数，它是基于与chrispy相同的想法，除了适应更一般的用途:

library(magrittr)

Aksel <- function(x, freq=FALSE) {
    z <- 2
    if (freq) z <- 1:2
    run <- x %>% as.vector %>% sort %>% rle %>% unclass %>% data.frame
    colnames(run) <- c("freq", "value")
    run[which(run$freq==max(run$freq)), z] %>% as.vector   
}

set.seed(2)

F <- sample(c("yes", "no", "maybe", NA), 10, replace=TRUE) %>% factor
Aksel(F)

# [1] maybe yes  

C <- sample(c("Steve", "Jane", "Jonas", "Petra"), 20, replace=TRUE)
Aksel(C, freq=TRUE)

# freq value
#    7 Steve

最后，我通过微基准测试在两组测试数据上运行了五个函数。函数名指的是它们各自的作者:

Chris的函数被设置为method="modes"和na。rm=TRUE默认值，以使其更具可比性，但除此之外，这里使用的函数是由它们的作者提供的。

In matter of speed alone Kens version wins handily, but it is also the only one of these that will only report one mode, no matter how many there really are. As is often the case, there's a trade-off between speed and versatility. In method="mode", Chris' version will return a value iff there is one mode, else NA. I think that's a nice touch. I also think it's interesting how some of the functions are affected by an increased number of unique values, while others aren't nearly as much. I haven't studied the code in detail to figure out why that is, apart from eliminating logical/numeric as a the cause.

假设你的观测值是来自实数的类，当你的观测值是2,2,3,3时，你期望模态为2.5，然后你可以用mode = l1 + I * (f1-f0) / (2f1 -f0 - f2)来估计模态，其中l1..最频繁类的下限，f1..最频繁类的频率，f0..在最频繁类之前的类的频率，f2..在最频繁类之后的类的频率，i..分类间隔，如在1,2,3中给出:

#Small Example
x <- c(2,2,3,3) #Observations
i <- 1          #Class interval

z <- hist(x, breaks = seq(min(x)-1.5*i, max(x)+1.5*i, i), plot=F) #Calculate frequency of classes
mf <- which.max(z$counts)   #index of most frequent class
zc <- z$counts
z$breaks[mf] + i * (zc[mf] - zc[mf-1]) / (2*zc[mf] - zc[mf-1] - zc[mf+1])  #gives you the mode of 2.5


#Larger Example
set.seed(0)
i <- 5          #Class interval
x <- round(rnorm(100,mean=100,sd=10)/i)*i #Observations

z <- hist(x, breaks = seq(min(x)-1.5*i, max(x)+1.5*i, i), plot=F)
mf <- which.max(z$counts)
zc <- z$counts
z$breaks[mf] + i * (zc[mf] - zc[mf-1]) / (2*zc[mf] - zc[mf-1] - zc[mf+1])  #gives you the mode of 99.5

如果你想要最频繁的级别，并且你有多个最频繁的级别，你可以得到所有的级别，例如:

x <- c(2,2,3,5,5)
names(which(max(table(x))==table(x)))
#"2" "5"

您还可以计算一个实例在您的集合中出现的次数，并找到最大次数。如。

> temp <- table(as.vector(x))
> names (temp)[temp==max(temp)]
[1] "1"
> as.data.frame(table(x))
r5050 Freq
1     0   13
2     1   15
3     2    6
>