Here is another way:

aggregate(.~ A + B, FUN = length, x)


On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Steven Raemaekers <s.raemaekers@sig.eu>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a query which I would like to translate into R, but I do not know
> how to do it in an easy way.
> Assume a data frame has columns A, B and C:
>
> A       B       C
> 1       1       3
> 1       1       4
> 1       1       5
> 1       2       6
> 1       2       7
> 1       3       8
>
> The query is as follows:
>
> select A, B, count(*)
> from data.frame
> group by A, B
> order by count(*) desc
>
> How do I translate this into R statements in such way that the result is a
> data frame structured as follows:
>
> A       B       count(*)
> 1       1       3
> 1       2       2
> 1       3       1
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steven
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