R computing mean, median, variance from file with frequency distribution

问题

I am very new to R tool and my questions might be a little too obvious.

I have a file that has the following data:

Score     Frequency

 100         10

 200         30

 300         40

How do I read this file and compute the mean, median, variance and standard deviation?

If this above table was just raw scores without any frequency information, then I can do this:

x <- scan(file="scores.txt", what = integer())

median(x)

and so on, but I am not able to understand how to do these computations when given a frequency table.

回答1:

Read the data with read.table (read ?read.table for reading from a file). Then, expand the data by creating a vector of individual scores. We can then write a function to get the desired statistics. You can, of course, calculate each individually if you don't wish to write a function.

d <- read.table(header = TRUE, text = "Score     Frequency
 100         10
 200         30
 300         40")

d2 <- rep(d$Score, d$Frequency)  ## expands the data by frequency of score

multi.fun <- function(x) {
    c(mean = mean(x), median = median(x), var = var(x), sd = sd(x))
}

multi.fun(d2)
#      mean     median        var         sd 
# 237.50000  250.00000 4905.06329   70.03616

回答2:

Depending on what format you input file is in you can use read.csv("scores.txt"). You can change the separator with read.csv("scores.txt", sep="\t"). If you data doesn't have a header, you can use the option header=F.

I am going to use a , since it is easier to read here.

INPUT FILE

Score,Frequency
100,10
200,30
300,40

R Source Code

x <- read.csv("scores.txt")
mean(x$Score)
median(x$Score)
var(x$Score)
mean(x$Score)
sd(x$Score)

R Output

> mean(x$Score)
[1] 200
> median(x$Score)
[1] 200
> var(x$Score)
[1] 10000
> mean(x$Score)
[1] 200
> sd(x$Score)
[1] 100

If you want to include the frequency.

R Source Code

x <- read.csv("scores.txt")
mean(rep(x$Score, x$Frequency))
median(rep(x$Score, x$Frequency))
var(rep(x$Score, x$Frequency))
mean(rep(x$Score, x$Frequency))
sd(rep(x$Score, x$Frequency))

R Output

> mean(rep(x$Score, x$Frequency))
[1] 237.5
> x <- read.csv("scores.txt")
> mean(rep(x$Score, x$Frequency))
[1] 237.5
> median(rep(x$Score, x$Frequency))
[1] 250
> var(rep(x$Score, x$Frequency))
[1] 4905.063
> mean(rep(x$Score, x$Frequency))
[1] 237.5
> sd(rep(x$Score, x$Frequency))
[1] 70.03616

回答3:

lines <- readLines("scores.txt")[-1]
mat <- matrix(as.numeric(unlist(
    strsplit(gsub(".*(\\d+).*(\\d+).*", "\\1,\\2", lines), ","))),
  ncol = 2, byrow = TRUE)
print(summary(mat[, 1]))
print(summary(mat[, 2]))

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22644481/r-computing-mean-median-variance-from-file-with-frequency-distribution

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