[R] summary for weekdays()
Rui Barradas
ruipbarradas at sapo.pt
Fri May 11 21:56:51 CEST 2012
Hello
Try
table(mydata$day)
Works with any type of character input.
Hope this helps,
Rui Barradas
Kai Mx wrote
>
> Hi all,
> probably really simple: I seem to be lacking some understanding for the
> character class: I have a bunch of dates in a dataframe and I want to add
> a
> string variable with the weekday for each date. If I use something like
> mydata$day <- weekdays (mydata$date), I can create subsets for each
> weekday
> (eg mydata=="Monday"), but summary (mydata$day) doesn't count the
> instances
> for each day but returns something like
>
> Length Class Mode
> 340 character character
>
> How can I get a proper summary (=count)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kai
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