[R] weighted mean

[Jason Turner]

MZodet at ahrq.gov wrote:

> How do I go about generating a WEIGHTED mean (and standard error) of a
> variable (e.g., expenditures) for each level of a categorical variable
> (e.g., geographic region)?  I'm looking for something comparable to PROC
> MEANS in SAS with both a class and weight statement.

That's two questions.
1) to apply a weighted mean to a vector, see ?weighted.mean

2) to apply a function to data grouped by categorical variable, you 
probably need "by" or "tapply".  See the help pages and examples for both.

Cheers

Jason
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