[R] force output dimension of table function

Philipp Pagel p.pagel at wzw.tum.de
Thu Apr 7 10:02:06 CEST 2011


On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 05:37:08AM +0200, fisken wrote:
> When I use the 'table' function on a simple vector it counts the
> number of occurences.
> So depending on the values of my input vector the function returns a
> class of type table with different lengths.
> 
> Is there an easy way to tell the table function, the values to expect?
 
> And what I wanted was
> 
> 0 1 2 3 4 5
> 0 1 1 1 0 2

The solution using factos has already been posted. if you are really
interested in integers only you could also use tabulate():

> tabulate(s)
[1] 1 1 1 0 2

Note that this excludes zero, though.

cu
	Philipp

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Technische Universität München
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