DescTools (version 0.99.30)

Mode: Mode, Most Frequent Value(s)

Description

Calculates the mode, the most frequent value, of a variable x. This makes mostly sense for qualitative data.

Usage

Mode(x, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x

a (non-empty) numeric vector of data values.

na.rm

logical. Should missing values be removed? Defaults to FALSE.

Value

Returns the most frequent value. If there are more than one, all of them are returned in a vector.

References

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55212746/rcpp-fast-statistical-mode-function-with-vector-input-of-any-type/ https://stackoverflow.com/a/55213471/8416610

See Also

mean, median

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(d.pizza)
Mode(d.pizza$driver)

# use sapply for evaluating data.frames (resp. apply for matrices)
sapply(d.pizza[,c("driver","temperature","date")], Mode, na.rm=TRUE)
# }