[R] count levels per factor level

Tord Snall tord.snall at ebc.uu.se
Fri Jan 10 15:26:02 CET 2003


Dear all,

I would be really happy for help with the following because I will treat
many columns the same way.

nlevels per ObjektID is what I want, but nlevels returns all levels
occurring in cpy.busk$TradArt:

buskartant<- aggregate(list(trash = cpy.busk$TradArt), list(ObjektID =
cpy.busk$ObjektID), nlevels) 

But as you can see I use it below anyway. I could use any function instaed
of nlevels beacuse now I just want the ObjektID in the right order.

Greg Warnes kindly helped me with this solution: 
group.list <- split(cpy.busk$TradArt, cpy.busk$ObjektID)
buskartant$buskartant <- sapply( group.list, function(x) length(unique(x)) )

But the probelm is that unique considers NA as a category, and there is no
na.rm argument in unique().

Please give a hint.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Sincerely,
Tord

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