[R] binning a vector

Sundar Dorai-Raj
Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:13:41 -0000

Arne.Muller at aventis.com wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was wondering wether there's a function in R that takes two vectors
(of same length) as input and computes mean values for bins (intervals) or even
a sliding window over these vectros.
>
> I've several x/y data set (input/response) that I'd like plot
together. Say the x-data for one data set goes from -5 to 14 with 12,000 values,
then I'd like to bin the x-vector in steps of +1 and calculate and plot the
mean of the x-values and the y-values within each bin.
>
> I was browsing the R-docs but couldn't find anything appropiate.
>
> 	thanks for hints + kind regads,
>
> 	Arne
>

Take a look at ?running or ?wapply in package:gregmisc.

--sundar