R help - Feb 2010 - Creating a table with median for multiple variables

I need to create a table using median "votes" by "party"

I have a large dataset with 7 different parties and 464 different vote
numbers. 

Any suggestions?
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should get you started ....

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> I need to create a table using median "votes" by
"party"
> 
> I have a large dataset with 7 different parties and 464 
> different vote numbers. 
> 
> Any suggestions?
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On 02/04/2010 10:55 AM, billy_no_mates wrote:
>
> I need to create a table using median "votes" by
"party"
>
> I have a large dataset with 7 different parties and 464 different vote
> numbers.
>
> Any suggestions?
Hi billy_no_mates,
It's a bit hard to work out what you want with just the above. Are the 
votes from the electoral districts for the different parties, or from 
the parties for different pieces of legislation? If the former, you 
would have seven values that represent the median number of votes for 
each party and so on.

Jim