[R] Count unique rows/columns in a matrix

[Gabor Csardi]

Hmmm, maybe i wasn't clear enough. So, i need the number 
of occurences for each row/column in the matrix. For your 
matrix the desired output would be something like a matrix

1 2 3
4 5 6
1 3 2
1 1 1

and the number of occurences for each row:

2 2 1 1 

I know some solutions like
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-December/149033.html
but this is not the best since it converts numeric data to 
strings, and this has a lot of problems.
Btw. i've just noticed that unique.matrix does the same.....

I guess i need to code this for myself, just wanted to
be sure that i'm not missing the easy way....

Gabor

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 02:07:37PM -0500, John Kane wrote:
> ?unique & ?length
> 
> #unique rows in a matrix
> X<-matrix(c(1,2,3,1,2,3,4,5,6,1,3,2,4,5,6,1,1,1),6,3,byrow=TRUE)
> length(unique(X)[,1])
> 
> #unique columns in a data.frame
> Y <- data.frame( a=1:5, b=2:6, c=1:5)
> length(unique(t(Y)[,1]))
> 
> --- Gabor Csardi <csardi at rmki.kfki.hu> wrote:
> 
> > Dear List, 
> > 
> > i know there are some solutions for this in the
> > archive,
> > but they're not very good for numeric matrices,
> > since they 
> > usually convert rows/columns to character strings.
> > Is there
> > an easy way to do $subject for numeric matrices
> > properly,
> > or i need to do it by hand?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Gabor
> > 
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