[R] Simple 'frequency' function?

[Dan Bolser]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Uwe Ligges wrote:

>Dan Bolser wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have designed the following function to extract count frequencies
>> from an array of integers. For example...
>> 
>> # Tipical array
>> x <- cbind(1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,4,5,6,7,22)
>> 
>> # Define the frequency function
>> frequency <-
>>   function(x){
>>     max <- max(x)
>>     j <- c()
>>     for(i in 1:max){
>>       j[i] <- length(x[x==i])
>>     }
>>     return(j)
>> }
>> 
>> fre <- frequency(x)
>> plot(fre)
>> 
>> How can I ... 
>> 
>> 1) Make this a general function so my array could be of the form
>> 
>> # eats!
>> x <- cbind( "egg","egg","egg","egg","ham","ham","ham","ham","chicken" )
>> 
>> fre <- frequency(x)
>> plot(fre)
>> 
>> 2) Make frequency return an object which I can call plot on (allowing the
>> prob=TRUE option).
>
>
>See ?table:
>
>   table(x)
>   plot(table(x))
>   plot(table(x) / sum(table(x)))
>

Sorry, why does 

plot(table(x),log='y')

fail?

I am looking at count/frequency distributions which are linear on log/log
scales.





>Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>> Cheers,
>> Dan.
>> 
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