[R] getting the unique values and counts from a vector

Dimitris Rizopoulos dimitris.rizopoulos at med.kuleuven.ac.be
Fri May 20 17:14:19 CEST 2005


you could use table(), i.e.,

x <- c(2, 1, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1, 4, 1, 1)
#######
tab <- table(x)
xu <- as.numeric(names(tab))
xn <- as.vector(tab)
xu; xn

I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Ravi.Vishnu at outokumpu.com>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 4:48 PM
Subject: [R] getting the unique values and counts from a vector


> Hi all,
>>From a vector, I want to get the unique values and the counts of 
>>these
> unique values in the vector. For example,
> x<-c(2 ,1 ,2, 1, 4 ,2 ,1, 4 ,1 ,1)
> xu<-unique(x)
> xn<-numeric(length(xu))
> for (i in 1:length(xu)) {xn[i]<-length(which(x==xu[i]))}
> There must be a very much simpler method of doing this. Can somebody
> direct me to the functions that I must read in order to do 
> operations of
> these sort.
> Thanks,
> Ravi Vishnu
>
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