How to do Group By Rollup in R? (Like SQL) - r

Question

I have a dataset and I want to perform something like Group By Rollup like we have in SQL for aggregate values.
Below is a reproducible example. I know aggregate works really well as explained here but not a satisfactory fit for my case.
year<- c('2016','2016','2016','2016','2017','2017','2017','2017')
month<- c('1','1','1','1','2','2','2','2')
region<- c('east','west','east','west','east','west','east','west')
sales<- c(100,200,300,400,200,400,600,800)
df<- data.frame(year,month,region,sales)
df
year month region sales
1 2016 1 east 100
2 2016 1 west 200
3 2016 1 east 300
4 2016 1 west 400
5 2017 2 east 200
6 2017 2 west 400
7 2017 2 east 600
8 2017 2 west 800
now what I want to do is aggregation (sum- by year-month-region) and add the new aggregate row in the existing dataframe
e.g. there should be two additional rows like below with a new name for region as 'USA' for the aggreagted rows
year month region sales
1 2016 1 east 400
2 2016 1 west 600
3 2016 1 USA 1000
4 2017 2 east 800
5 2017 2 west 1200
6 2017 2 USA 2000
I have figured out a way (below) but I am very sure that there exists an optimum solution for this OR a better workaround than mine
df1<- setNames(aggregate(df$sales, by=list(df$year,df$month, df$region), FUN=sum),
c('year','month','region', 'sales'))
df2<- setNames(aggregate(df$sales, by=list(df$year,df$month), FUN=sum),
c('year','month', 'sales'))
df2$region<- 'USA' ## added a new column- region- for total USA
df2<- df2[, c('year','month','region', 'sales')] ## reordering the columns of df2
df3<- rbind(df1,df2)
df3<- df3[order(df3$year,df3$month,df3$region),] ## order by
rownames(df3)<- NULL ## renumbered the rows after order by
df3
Thanks for the support!

Answer 1

melt/dcast in the reshape2 package can do subtotalling. After running dcast we replace "(all)" in the month column with the month using na.locf from the zoo package:
library(reshape2)
library(zoo)
m <- melt(df, measure.vars = "sales")
dout <- dcast(m, year + month + region ~ variable, fun.aggregate = sum, margins = "month")
dout$month <- na.locf(replace(dout$month, dout$month == "(all)", NA))
giving:
> dout
year month region sales
1 2016 1 east 400
2 2016 1 west 600
3 2016 1 (all) 1000
4 2017 2 east 800
5 2017 2 west 1200
6 2017 2 (all) 2000

Answer 2

In recent devel data.table 1.10.5 you can use new feature called "grouping sets" to produce sub totals:
library(data.table)
setDT(df)
res = groupingsets(df, .(sales=sum(sales)), sets=list(c("year","month"), c("year","month","region")), by=c("year","month","region"))
setorder(res, na.last=TRUE)
res
# year month region sales
#1: 2016 1 east 400
#2: 2016 1 west 600
#3: 2016 1 NA 1000
#4: 2017 2 east 800
#5: 2017 2 west 1200
#6: 2017 2 NA 2000
You can substitute NA to USA using res[is.na(region), region := "USA"].

Answer 3

plyr::ddply(df, c("year", "month", "region"), plyr::summarise, sales = sum(sales))