genTable: Generic Tables and Data Frames of Descriptive Statistics

Description

genTable creates a table of arbitrary summaries conditional on given values of independent variables given by a formula.

Aggregate does the same, but returns a data.frame instead.

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

Usage

Aggregate(formula, data=parent.frame(), subset=NULL,
          names=NULL, addFreq=TRUE, drop = TRUE, as.vars=1,
          ...)
genTable(formula, data=parent.frame(), subset=NULL,
         names=NULL, addFreq=TRUE,...)

Value

Aggregate

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".

Arguments

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.
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, or nvalid is supplied by an additional argument Freq and a call to table is translated into a call to Table.
drop: a logical value. If TRUE, empty groups (i.e. when there are no observations in the aggregated data frame that contain the defining combination of values or factor levels of the conditioning variables in by) are dropped from the result of Aggregate. Otherwise, result are filled with NA, where appropriate.
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 extend in case of arrays.
...: further arguments, passed to methods or ignored.

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 is equivalent to as.data.frame(xtabs(...)).

Examples

Run this code

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")