Mean per group in a data.frame [duplicate]

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I have a data.frame and I need to calculate the mean per group (i.e. per Month, below).

Name     Month  Rate1     Rate2
Aira       1      12        23
Aira       2      18        73
Aira       3      19        45
Ben        1      53        19
Ben        2      22        87
Ben        3      19        45
Cat        1      22        87
Cat        2      67        43
Cat        3      45        32

My desired output is like below, where the values for Rate1 and Rate2 are the group means. Please disregard the value, I have made it up for the example.

Name       Rate1       Rate2
Aira        23.21       12.2
Ben         45.23       43.9
Cat         33.22       32.2

Answer

This type of operation is exactly what aggregate was designed for:

d <- read.table(text=
'Name     Month  Rate1     Rate2
Aira       1      12        23
Aira       2      18        73
Aira       3      19        45
Ben        1      53        19
Ben        2      22        87
Ben        3      19        45
Cat        1      22        87
Cat        2      67        43
Cat        3      45        32', header=TRUE)

aggregate(d[, 3:4], list(d$Name), mean)

  Group.1    Rate1    Rate2
1    Aira 16.33333 47.00000
2     Ben 31.33333 50.33333
3     Cat 44.66667 54.00000

Here we aggregate columns 3 and 4 of data.frame d, grouping by d$Name, and applying the mean function.

Or, using a formula interface:

aggregate(. ~ Name, d[-2], mean)
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