[R] Counting character occurrences in data frame

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

Try this:

with(DF, tapply(code, list(year, month, code), length))


On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Hutchinson,David [PYR]
<David.Hutchinson at ec.gc.ca> wrote:
> Hi R-Users,
>
> I have a data frame containing year, month, day, and code columns. The
> code column is a unique character of set ('E','A','B') - I am trying to
> determine an efficient way of summarizing the count of each of these
> codes by month and year without having to use for...loops and subsets.
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dave
>
> Here is a snapshot of my data frame:
>
>     year month day code
> 8006 1935    12   1    E
> 8007 1935    12   2
> 8008 1935    12   3    E
> 8009 1935    12   4
> 8010 1935    12   5    E
> 8011 1935    12   6    E
>
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