Get the element with the highest occurrence in an array

Question

I\'m looking for an elegant way of determining which element has the highest occurrence (mode) in a JavaScript array.

For example, in

[\'pear\', \'a         


        

Answer 1

This function is generic function for every type of info. It counts the occurrence of the elements and then returns array with maximum occurring elements.

function mode () {
  var arr = [].slice.call(arguments);
  if ((args.length == 1) && (typeof args[0] === "object")) {
    args = args[0].mode();
  }

  var obj = {};
  for(var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
    if(obj[arr[i]] === undefined) obj[arr[i]] = 1;
    else obj[arr[i]]++;
  }

  var max = 0;
  for (w in obj) {
    if (obj[w] > max) max = obj[w];
  }

  ret_val = [];
  for (w in obj) {
    if (obj[w] == max) ret_val.push(w);
  }

  return ret_val;
}