Mean of variable by two factors

Question

I have the following data:

a <- c(1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2)
b <- c(2,4,6,8,2,3,4,1)
c <- factor(c(\"A\",\"B\",\"A\",\"B\",\"A\",\"B\",\"A\",\"B\"))
df <- data         


        

Answer 1

Personally I would use aggregate:

aggregate(length ~ sp, data = df, FUN= "mean" )
# by species only
#     sp length
#1  1    5.0
#2  2    2.5

aggregate(length ~ sp + method, data = df, FUN= "mean" )
    # by species and method
#  sp method length
#1  1      A      4
#2  2      A      3
#3  1      B      6
#4  2      B      2

for everything together you may want:

aggregate(length ~ method, data = df, function(x) c(m = mean(x), counts = length(x)) )

# counts and mean for each method
#  method length.m length.counts
#1      A      3.5           4.0
#2      B      4.0           4.0