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

found this on the r mailing list, hope it's helpful. It is also what I was thinking anyways. You'll want to table() the data, sort and then pick the first name. It's hackish but should work.

names(sort(-table(x)))[1]