How to find the statistical mode?

Question

In R, mean() and median() are standard functions which do what you\'d expect. mode() tells you the internal storage mode of the objec

Answer 1

There are multiple solutions provided for this one. I checked the first one and after that wrote my own. Posting it here if it helps anyone:

Mode <- function(x){
  y <- data.frame(table(x))
  y[y$Freq == max(y$Freq),1]
}

Lets test it with a few example. I am taking the iris data set. Lets test with numeric data

> Mode(iris$Sepal.Length)
[1] 5

which you can verify is correct.

Now the only non numeric field in the iris dataset(Species) does not have a mode. Let's test with our own example

> test <- c("red","red","green","blue","red")
> Mode(test)
[1] red

EDIT

As mentioned in the comments, user might want to preserve the input type. In which case the mode function can be modified to:

Mode <- function(x){
  y <- data.frame(table(x))
  z <- y[y$Freq == max(y$Freq),1]
  as(as.character(z),class(x))
}

The last line of the function simply coerces the final mode value to the type of the original input.