[R] Transposing the output of 'table'

Bert Gunter gunter.berton at gene.com
Sun Oct 6 20:22:24 CEST 2013


Berend et.al:

Yes.

But note that this only works for a 2-d table-- which the OP indicated
was what he had; in general, one would have to explicitly permute the
array(table) dimensions, e.g. via aperm()  .

Cheers,
Bert

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Berend Hasselman <bhh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> On 06-10-2013, at 19:30, Dennis Fisher <fisher at plessthan.com> wrote:
>
>> R 3.0.1
>> OS X
>>
>> Colleagues,
>>
>> If I execute the command:
>>       table(OBJECT)
>> the output might look like:
>>  1   2
>> 25 336
>>
>> I would like it to appear as:
>>       1       25
>>       2       336
>>
>> I can accomplish this with:
>>       TABLE   <- table(OBJECT)
>>       data.frame(names(TABLE), as.numeric(TABLE))
>>
>> However, I bet that a more clever approach exists?  Any takers?
>
>
> Have you tried t(table(OBJECT)) ?
>
> Berend
>
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