Is there a built-in function for finding the mode?

Question

In R, mean() and median() are standard functions that do what you'd expect.  mode() tells you the internal storage mode of the object, not the value that occurs the most in its argument. But is there is a standard library function that implements the statistical mode for a vector (or list)?

Answer 1

There is a package called modeest which enables to compute an estimate of the mode of a univariate distribution. Its dependency genefilter is part of Bioconductor, so it needs to be installed using Bioconductor methods.

For example:

install.packages("modeest")

install.packages("BiocManager")

library("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("genefilter") 

 To find mode:

mySample <- c(19, 4, 5, 7, 29, 19, 29, 13, 25, 19)

library(modeest)

mlv(mySamples, method = "mfv")

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