Mean of a column in a data frame, given the column’s name

I think you’re asking how to compute the mean of a variable in a data frame, given the name of the column. There are two typical approaches to doing this, one indexing with [[ and the other indexing with [:

data(iris)
mean(iris[["Petal.Length"]])
# [1] 3.758
mean(iris[,"Petal.Length"])
# [1] 3.758
mean(iris[["Sepal.Width"]])
# [1] 3.057333
mean(iris[,"Sepal.Width"])
# [1] 3.057333

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