[R] Need help on changing a table

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Note that read.table() reads a table and returns a _data frame_.  So it is 
the _data frame_ that you want to change (a table is something else in R). 
This is a simple application of aggregate(), e.g.

> aggregate(z[-1], list(Item=z$Item), sum)
   Item X3d_Plot XY_plot
1    1        1       2
2    2        2       1

where I got z from read.table("clipboard", header=TRUE).

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, gsmkb86 wrote:

>
> Hi all:
> Im kind of new on R and I need help changing a table. The thing is, i read a
> file on R using the read.table command and the table looks like this:
> Item      3d Plot     XY plot
> 001          1             0
> 001          0             1
> 001          0             1
> 002          1             0
> 002          1             0
> 002          0             1
> ...            ..             ..
> And what I want to do is generate a new table by item with the sum of the
> numbres, the next one is an example:
>
> Item     3d Plot       XY plot
> 001          1              2
> 002          2              1
> 003          ...            ...
>
> Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks in advance, help is greatly
> appreciated
>

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