[R] Multidimensional contingency tables

[Gabor Grothendieck]

 xtabs(count ~., prob1)

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Robert A. LaBudde <ral at lcfltd.com> wrote:
> How does one ideally handle and display multidimenstional contingency
> tables in R v. 2.6.2?
>
> E.g.:
>
>  > prob1<- data.frame(victim=c(rep('white',4),rep('black',4)),
> +   perp=c(rep('white',2),rep('black',2),rep('white',2),rep('black',2)),
> +   death=rep(c('yes','no'),4), count=c(19,132,11,52,0,9,6,97))
>  > prob1
>   victim  perp death count
> 1  white white   yes    19
> 2  white white    no   132
> 3  white black   yes    11
> 4  white black    no    52
> 5  black white   yes     0
> 6  black white    no     9
> 7  black black   yes     6
> 8  black black    no    97
>
> The xtabs() function doesn't seem appropriate, as it has no means of
> using 'count'.
>
> This must be a common problem.
>
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