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Computing stats by groups (I)

So far you have worked with the two dimensions, rows and columns of a data.table. It's now time to consider the virtual third dimension by dividing rows into groups to calculate statistics.

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Data Manipulation with data.table in R

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Exercise instructions

Compute the mean duration for every start_station, calling the aggregated column mean_duration.

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Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Compute the mean duration for every start_station
mean_start_stn <- batrips[, .(___), by = ___]
mean_start_stn
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