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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to average the third column for each value of the first column? Post 302960249 by PMFCG on Thursday 12th of November 2015 04:55:58 PM
Old 11-12-2015
The first two column values are lat/long values. They are for specific locations, so considering the first column as an id is fine, I think.

I am using UNIX on a mac (not sure if that's what you needed to know). I am VERY inexperienced, only been working with UNIX for a few months.

So far I have tried switching this code around in the terminal. It is for averaging rows with the same first column.
$ awk '
NR>1{
arr[$1] += $2
count[$1] += 1
}
END{
for (a in arr) {
print "id avg " a " = " arr[a] / count[a]
}
}
' FILE

I have tried to switch the $2 to $3 and switched the order so that it would be averaging columns not rows, but I don't think this is even the right approach. No matter what I try I get "0" as the output for my average...Smilie

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Quote:
Originally Posted by wisecracker
I am missing something here.

30.498001,-87.881412,0.026

There is no third column!

Do we assume that this NULL is the value zero?
Otherwise how do you want us to average a none existant value?
30.498001,-87.881412,0.026

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