[R] how to get the numbers of factors in a matrix

Tue Jan 21 15:58:04 CET 2014

You are mis-using factors. Would you pretend that women do not exist just because your sample happens to include only men?

If you really need to ignore those other levels, convert your factor to character and summarize those values.
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"张以春" <yczhang at nigpas.ac.cn> wrote:
>Dear Pikal,
>
>
>Thank you very much for your answer. 
>
>
>I think your example is just the problem I have. 
>
>
>In the following example you gave to me, 
>
>
>> > ff<-factor(letters[1:5])
>> > levels(ff[1:2])
>> [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e"
>> > fff<-ff[1:2]
>> > nlevels(fff)
>> [1] 5
>> 
>> > fff
>> [1] a b
>> Levels: a b c d e
>
>In my understanding, fff is a subset of ff. Why fff's levels is not "a,
>b" but "a,b,c,d,e".
>
>
>My problem is quite similar to the example. I just want to split the
>matrix into many subsets and calculate the levels of every subset. Can
>you tell me how to do? Thank you very much!
>
>
>Best regards,
>Yichun
>
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>> ������: RE: [R] how to get the numbers of factors in a matrix
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> It is rather difficult to understand what problem you have.
>> 
>> post some data e.g. by
>> 
>> dput(head(bigmatrix))
>> 
>> Maybe your problem is in a factor feature that it preserves also
>empty levels until you specifically drop them.
>> 
>> > ff<-factor(letters[1:5])
>> > levels(ff[1:2])
>> [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e"
>> > fff<-ff[1:2]
>> > nlevels(fff)
>> [1] 5
>> 
>> > fff
>> [1] a b
>> Levels: a b c d e
>> 
>> Regards
>> Petr
>> 
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>> > Dear friends,
>> >
>> >
>> > I have a question do not know how to resolve.
>> >
>> >
>> > I have a big matrix composed of different columns (I use N here). A
>> > column is "species" and another one is "latitudes". Now, I want to
>know
>> > how I can get the number of different "latitudes" for every
>"species".
>> > I have tried to split the matrix according to species (X<-split(N,
>> > N$species) and then use sapply(X,
>function(m){nlevels(m$latitudes)}) to
>> > get that. But the result shows the total factor numbers of
>"latitudes"
>> > but not the factor numbers of every species I splitted. Also, I
>have
>> > tried to use tapply(N$latitudes, N$species, nlevels) to do this.
>The
>> > result is the same. I am confused about this. Can someone help me
>with
>> > that? Thank you very much!
>> >
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Yichun
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