Apply several summary functions on several variables by group in one call

Question

I have the following data frame

x <- read.table(text = \"  id1 id2 val1 val2
1   a   x    1    9
2   a   x    2    4
3   a   y    3    5
4   a   y    4            


        

Answer 1

Perhaps you want to merge?

x.mean <- aggregate(. ~ id1+id2, p, mean)
x.len  <- aggregate(. ~ id1+id2, p, length)

merge(x.mean, x.len, by = c("id1", "id2"))

  id1 id2 val1.x val2.x val1.y val2.y
1   a   x    1.5    6.5      2      2
2   a   y    3.5    7.0      2      2
3   b   x    2.0    8.0      2      2
4   b   y    3.0    6.0      2      2