R help - Feb 2005 - mode of a data set

I was looking up how to find the mode of a data set in R and found some 
solutions through your service.  But,  I needed a program to find the 
mode or modes of a data set.  Here is what I came up with:

names(sort(table(x)))[sort(table(x))==max(sort(table(x)))]

Michael Allen
Department of Mathematics
Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, TN 38505
USA

That'll work, provided x is discrete or categorical. 

      Otherwise, the mode is not a well defined concept, as has been 
discussed on this list several times.  I just got 17 hits for a search 
-> "R site search" -> "finding the mode of a distribution
from data"
from "www.r-project.org".  The seventh item on that list was a reply 
from Ted Harding on Sat Dec 13 2003 - 13:13:37 EST to a question subject 
"mode", elaborating on this point.  (The term "mode" is a
difficult
search here, because the R command "mode" returns the storage mode of 
the data, which is unrelated to your question.) 

      hope this helps.  spencer graves

Michael R. Allen wrote:
> I was looking up how to find the mode of a data set in R and found 
> some solutions through your service.  But,  I needed a program to find 
> the mode or modes of a data set.  Here is what I came up with:
>
> names(sort(table(x)))[sort(table(x))==max(sort(table(x)))]
>
> Michael Allen
> Department of Mathematics
> Tennessee Technological University
> Cookeville, TN 38505
> USA
>
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