ddply multiple quantiles by group

Question

how can I do this calculation:

library(ddply)
quantile(baseball$ab)
  0%  25%  50%  75% 100% 
  0   25  131  435  705 

by groups, say by \"

Answer 1

With base R you could use tapply and do.call

library(plyr)
do.call("rbind", tapply(baseball$ab, baseball$team, quantile))

do.call("rbind", tapply(baseball$ab, baseball$team, quantile, c(0.05, 0.1, 0.2)))

Or, with ddply

ddply(baseball, .(team), function(x) quantile(x$ab))