[R] Bucketting data

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

try this:

unique(cleandata[, 4])
length(unique(cleandata[, 4]))


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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Dimitris Rizopoulos
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Biostatistical Centre
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Catholic University of Leuven

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Uzuner, Tolga" <tolga.uzuner at csfb.com>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 2:50 PM
Subject: [R] Bucketting data


> Hi,
>
> Am sure this is a trivial question but for some reason, haven't been 
> able to figure it out.
>
> I want to bucket data in a vector, and then iterate over the 
> buckets.
>
> Say the data set is:
>
>> cleandata[,4]
> [1]  26  26  26  26  26  26  26  26  26  26  26  26  61  61  61  61 
> 61  61  61  61  61  61  61  89  89  89  89  89  89  89 180 180 180 
> 180 362 544 544 544
> [39] 544 544 544 544 544 544 544
>
> This has the buckets:
>
> 26 61 89 180 362 544
>
> I'd like something which gives me a vector of these buckets, i.e. 
> bucket(cleandata[,4])=vector of 26 61 89 180 362 544
>
> and length(bucket(cleandata[,4]))=6
>
> Thanks,
> Tolga
>
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