添加raster::modal()作为一个选项，不过请注意，raster是一个很大的包，如果不做地理空间方面的工作，可能不值得安装。

源代码可以从https://github.com/rspatial/raster/blob/master/src/modal.cpp和https://github.com/rspatial/raster/blob/master/R/modal.R中取出，放入个人R包中，供那些特别热衷的人使用。

效果很好

> a<-c(1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,5)
> names(table(a))[table(a)==max(table(a))]

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()
}

计算包含离散值的向量“v”的MODE的一个简单方法是:

names(sort(table(v)))[length(sort(table(v)))]

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"

对Ken Williams的回答做了一个小修改，增加了可选的params na。Rm和return_multiple。

与依赖names()的答案不同，此答案在返回值中维护x的数据类型。

stat_mode <- function(x, return_multiple = TRUE, na.rm = FALSE) {
  if(na.rm){
    x <- na.omit(x)
  }
  ux <- unique(x)
  freq <- tabulate(match(x, ux))
  mode_loc <- if(return_multiple) which(freq==max(freq)) else which.max(freq)
  return(ux[mode_loc])
}

要显示它与可选参数一起工作并维护数据类型:

foo <- c(2L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 5L, NA, NA)
bar <- c('mouse','mouse','dog','cat','cat','bird',NA,NA)

str(stat_mode(foo)) # int [1:3] 2 4 NA
str(stat_mode(bar)) # chr [1:3] "mouse" "cat" NA
str(stat_mode(bar, na.rm=T)) # chr [1:2] "mouse" "cat"
str(stat_mode(bar, return_mult=F, na.rm=T)) # chr "mouse"

感谢@Frank的简化。