[R] using "table" in R

[jim holtman]

Here is one way; you create a vector of the data in the dataframe with
'unlist' and then use table:

> d = as.data.frame(matrix(c(1, 2, 3, 3), 2,2))
> d
  V1 V2
1  1  3
2  2  3
> table(unlist(d))

1 2 3
1 1 2
>


On 9/16/06, Bingshan Li <bingshanli at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a dataframe whose elements are numbers or
> characters. I want to extract the frequencies of each
> elements in the dataframe. For example,
>
> d = as.data.frame(matrix(c(1, 2, 3, 3), 2,2))
>
> What I want is first what are the elements in the data
> (1,2,3 here) and second what are their frequencies
> (1,1,2 respectively). How to use "table" to extract
> these two pieces of information? I played with "table"
> but couldn't extract the information. Please assume
> that we do not know how many elements in the dataframe
> a priori.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
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