[R] Controlling the Output from table()

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Sun Oct 7 09:10:41 CEST 2007


On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Öhagen Patrik wrote:

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> Dear All,
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> I would like to have some controll over the output from the function 
> table(). I want to controll the order of the cells and I want to include 
> empty cells (if any).
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> Example: I have ordinal data wich takes the values 1,2,3....N but I want 
> the output from table to put the frequencies in a different order, say, 
> 3,7,1,4.... and I want to include categories with zero frequency.
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> How is that done?

See ?tabulate.  You can reorder the result via indexing: I don't follow 
what you want and you did not give us an example.  (For example, is 
'ordinal data' represented by an ordered factor or by an integer vector?)

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