Return most frequent string value for each group [duplicate]
This question already has an answer here: How to select the row with the maximum value in each group 10 answers How to select the rows with maximum values in each group with dplyr? [duplicate] 6 answers a <- c(rep(1:2,3)) b <- c("A","A","B","B","B","B") df <- data.frame(a,b) > str(b) chr [1:6] "A" "A" "B" "B" "B" "B" a b 1 1 A 2 2 A 3 1 B 4 2 B 5 1 B 6 2 B I want to group by variable a and return the most frequent value of b My desired result would look like a b 1 1 B 2 2 B In dplyr it would be something like df %>% group_by(a) %>% summarize (b = most.frequent(b)) I mentioned dplyr only to