Calculating subtotals in R

Question

I have a data frame with 900,000 rows and 11 columns in R. The column names and types are as follows:

column name: date / mcode / mname / ycode / yname / yissue          


        

Answer 1

Or the plyr library, which is easily extensible to other data classes:

> library(plyr)
> result.2 <- ddply(df$a, .(df$b), sum)
> result.2
  df.b V1
1 down 30
2   up 25