[r] Mean per group in a data.frame

Or use group_by & summarise_at from the dplyr package:

library(dplyr)

d %>%
  group_by(Name) %>%
  summarise_at(vars(-Month), funs(mean(., na.rm=TRUE)))

# A tibble: 3 x 3
  Name  Rate1 Rate2
  <fct> <dbl> <dbl>
1 Aira   16.3  47.0
2 Ben    31.3  50.3
3 Cat    44.7  54.0

See ?summarise_at for the many ways to specify the variables to act on. Here, vars(-Month) says all variables except Month.