[R] how to create data.frames from vectors with duplicates

[Bert Gunter]

For the record, Henrique's use of rowsum() is about 10 times faster
than using tapply (and presumably anything with table() ) on my
computer.  It call a C primitive.

-- Bert

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Henrique Dallazuanna <wwwhsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try this:
>
> rowsum(x, y)
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:45 PM, zhenjiang xu <zhenjiang.xu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi R users,
>>
>> suppose I have two vectors,
>>  > x=c(1,2,3,4,5)
>>  > y=c('a','b','c','a','c')
>> How can I get a data.frame like this?
>> > xy
>>      count
>> a     5
>> b     2
>> c     8
>>
>> I know a few ways to fulfill the task. However, I have a huge number
>> of this kind calculations, so I'd like an efficient solution. Thanks
>>
>> --
>> Best,
>> Zhenjiang
>>
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