R function which.max with tapply

Question

I am trying to make a data frame with the maximum over records by a factor. I would like a data frame with 4 rows (one for each G) with the max for X in that group and the c

Answer 1

  library(data.table)
  set.seed(1)
  Data<-data.frame(X=rnorm(200), Y=rnorm(200), G=rep(c(1,2,3,4), each=50))
  setDT(Data)[,list(X=max(X),Y=Y[which.max(X)]),by=G]
   G        X          Y
1: 1 1.595281 -0.3309078
2: 2 2.401618  0.9510128
3: 3 2.087167  0.9160193
4: 4 2.307978 -0.3887222