R help - Nov 2004 - How to get mode (the most frequent value in distribution) ?

A sample from a continuous distribution most likely has no meaningful sample
mode.  Shown below is a way to estimate the location of mode from a kernel
density estimate (using the locfit package):
> x <- rnorm(50)
> library(locfit)
Locfit for R.
August 3, 2000.  (Updated for R 1.7.0, March 21, 2003)

Attaching package 'locfit':


        The following object(s) are masked from package:stats :

         knots 
> x.den <- locfit(~x)
> x[which.max(predict(x.den, newdata=x))]
[1] -0.615337

HTH,
Andy
> From: Gregor GORJANC
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I have a continous distribution and would like to get mode  (the most 
> frequent value in distribution). I easily found mean, median 
> and other 
> basic thing but not mode function. Can anyone help?
> 
> I know there my might be problems with multiple modes, but 
> still I think 
> that there should be a mode function in R.
> 
> Please send mail to R-help list and me, so I can get response faster.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> -- 
> Lep pozdrav / With regards,
>      Gregor GORJANC
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