memisc (version 0.96-10)

aggragate.formula: Data Frames and Tables of Descriptive Statistics

Description

aggregate.formula constructs a data frame of summaries conditional on given values of independent variables given by a formula. It is a method of the generic function aggregate applied to formula objects.

genTable does the same, but produces a table.

fapply is a generic function that dispatches on its data argument. It is called internally by aggregate.formula and genTable. Methods for this function can be used to adapt aggregate.formula and genTable to data sources other than data frames.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'formula':
aggregate(x, data=parent.frame(), subset=NULL,
      sort = TRUE, names=NULL, addFreq=TRUE, as.vars=1,
      drop.constants=TRUE,...)
genTable(formula, data=parent.frame(), subset=NULL,
      names=NULL, addFreq=TRUE,...)
fapply(formula,data,...) # calls UseMethod("fapply",data)
## S3 method for class 'default':
fapply(formula, data, subset=NULL,
      names=NULL, addFreq=TRUE,\dots)

Arguments

x, formula

a formula. The right hand side includes one or more grouping variables separated by '+'. These may be factors, numeric, or character vectors. The left hand side may be empty, a numerical variable, a factor, or an expression. See details below.

data

an environment or data frame or an object coercable into a data frame.

subset

an optional vector specifying a subset of observations to be used.

sort

a logical value; determines the order in which the aggregated data appear in the data frame returned by aggregate.formula. If sort is TRUE, then the returned data frame is sorted by the values of the grouping variable

names

an optional character vector giving names to the result(s) yielded by the expression on the left hand side of formula. This argument may be redundant if the left hand side results in is a named vector. (See the example below.)

addFreq

a logical value. If TRUE and data is a table or a data frame with a variable named "Freq", a call to table, Table, percent

as.vars

an integer; relevant only if the left hand side of the formula returns an array or a matrix - which dimension (rows, columns, or layers etc.) will transformed to variables? Defaults to columns in case of matrices and to the highest dimensional ext

drop.constants

logical; variables that are constant across levels dropped from the result?

...

further arguments, passed to methods or ignored.

Value

• aggregate.formula results in a data frame with conditional summaries and unique value combinations of conditioning variables.

  genTable returns a table, that is, an array with class "table".

Details

If an expression is given as left hand side of the formula, its value is computed for any combination of values of the values on the right hand side. If the right hand side is a dot, then all variables in data are added to the right hand side of the formula.

If no expression is given as left hand side, then the frequency counts for the respective value combinations of the right hand variables are computed.

If a single factor is on the left hand side, then the left hand side is translated into an appropriate call to table(). Note that also in this case addFreq takes effect.

If a single numeric variable is on the left hand side, frequency counts weighted by this variable are computed. In these cases, genTable is equivalent to xtabs and aggregate.formula is equivalent to as.data.frame(xtabs(...)).

See Also

aggregate.data.frame, xtabs

Examples

ex.data <- expand.grid(mu=c(0,100),sigma=c(1,10))[rep(1:4,rep(100,4)),]
ex.data <- within(ex.data,
                  x<-rnorm(
                    n=nrow(ex.data),
                    mean=mu,
                    sd=sigma
                    )
                  )

aggregate(~mu+sigma,data=ex.data)
aggregate(mean(x)~mu+sigma,data=ex.data)
aggregate(mean(x)~mu+sigma,data=ex.data,name="Average")
aggregate(c(mean(x),sd(x))~mu+sigma,data=ex.data)
aggregate(c(Mean=mean(x),StDev=sd(x),N=length(x))~mu+sigma,data=ex.data)
genTable(c(Mean=mean(x),StDev=sd(x),N=length(x))~mu+sigma,data=ex.data)

aggregate(table(Admit)~.,data=UCBAdmissions)
aggregate(Table(Admit,Freq)~.,data=UCBAdmissions)
aggregate(Admit~.,data=UCBAdmissions)
aggregate(percent(Admit)~.,data=UCBAdmissions)
aggregate(percent(Admit)~Gender,data=UCBAdmissions)
aggregate(percent(Admit)~Dept,data=UCBAdmissions)
aggregate(percent(Gender)~Dept,data=UCBAdmissions)
aggregate(percent(Admit)~Dept,data=UCBAdmissions,Gender=="Female")
genTable(percent(Admit)~Dept,data=UCBAdmissions,Gender=="Female")