我发现Ken Williams上面的帖子很棒，我添加了几行来解释NA值，并使其成为一个函数。

Mode <- function(x, na.rm = FALSE) {
  if(na.rm){
    x = x[!is.na(x)]
  }

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

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()
}

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"

估计来自连续单变量分布(例如正态分布)的数字向量的模式的一种快速而肮脏的方法是定义并使用以下函数:

estimate_mode <- function(x) {
  d <- density(x)
  d$x[which.max(d$y)]
}

然后得到模态估计:

x <- c(5.8, 5.6, 6.2, 4.1, 4.9, 2.4, 3.9, 1.8, 5.7, 3.2)
estimate_mode(x)
## 5.439788

下面是一个查找模式的函数:

mode <- function(x) {
  unique_val <- unique(x)
  counts <- vector()
  for (i in 1:length(unique_val)) {
    counts[i] <- length(which(x==unique_val[i]))
  }
  position <- c(which(counts==max(counts)))
  if (mean(counts)==max(counts)) 
    mode_x <- 'Mode does not exist'
  else 
    mode_x <- unique_val[position]
  return(mode_x)
}

在r邮件列表中发现了这个，希望对你有帮助。我也是这么想的。您将希望table()数据，排序，然后选择第一个名称。这有点粗俗，但应该有用。

names(sort(-table(x)))[1]