r - To get the most frequent levels in a data frame

Question

I have the data frame like

now i need to get the output with most frequently occurred levels like

Could any one help me on this please??

Answer 1

We can use Mode function from here

 Mode <- function(x) {
  ux <- unique(x)
  ux[which.max(tabulate(match(x, ux)))]
}

and use it in any of the group by functions. One option is with dplyr

library(dplyr)
df %>%
   group_by(location) %>% 
   summarise(site = Mode(site))
#    location  site
#     <chr> <chr>
#1        a  site
#2        b  bang
#3        c  site

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Or with base R

with(df, tapply(as.character(site), location, FUN = Mode))

data

 df<-data.frame(location=rep(letters[1:3], c(3, 1, 2)),
     site = c("site", "site", "bang", "bang", "site", "bang"), stringsAsFactors=FALSE)