average of counts with Laravel 5 - eloquent

Question

We have two classes: Module and Resource, with a module having many resources:
class Module extends Model {
public function resources() {
return $this->hasMany('App\Models\Resource');
}
}
and a resource belonging to a Module:
class Resource extends Model {
public function module() {
return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\Module');
}
}
I need to show a list of all the modules with:
The number of resources for each each module
The average of resources per module
The first one is added to the Module model so it can be used with eager loading:
public function resourcesCount() {
return $this->hasMany('App\Models\Resource')
->selectRaw('module_id, count(*) AS aggregate')
->groupBy('module_id');
}
However, I can't find an efficient and elegant way to calculate the average of the counts calculated by resourcesCount. I know I could iterate through the results of
$modules = Module::with('resourcesCount')->get();
and do it manually, but I feel there's something better out there.
EDIT: forgot to say that I modified the accessor for the resourcesCountAttribute:
public function getResourcesCountAttribute() {
if (!$this->relationLoaded('resourcesCount'))
$this->load('resourcesCount');
$related = $this->getRelation('resourcesCount');
return ($related) ? (int) $related->aggregate : 0;
}
So I can use 'resourcesCount' (See my response), rather than having to use 'resourcesCount.aggregate'.

Answer 1

I found out an acceptable way to do so, using the collection's methods.
// Returns an elloquent collection
$modules = Module::with('resourcesCount')->get();
// counts sums divided by the number of
$avgResources = $modules->sum('resourcesCount') / $modules->count();

Answer 2

The only way would be to do it through iteration or in a separate DB::select() statement, relying on things like GROUP BY and AVERAGE().