[R] Multidimensional contingency tables

[Robert A LaBudde]

Now that is simple and elegant. Thanks!

PS. Is there a course available for learning how to read R help information? :)

At 10:52 PM 4/21/2008, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>  xtabs(count ~., prob1)
>
>On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Robert A. LaBudde <ral at lcfltd.com> wrote:
> > How does one ideally handle and display multidimenstional contingency
> > tables in R v. 2.6.2?
> >
> > E.g.:
> >
> >  > prob1<- data.frame(victim=c(rep('white',4),rep('black',4)),
> > +   perp=c(rep('white',2),rep('black',2),rep('white',2),rep('black',2)),
> > +   death=rep(c('yes','no'),4), count=c(19,132,11,52,0,9,6,97))
> >  > prob1
> >   victim  perp death count
> > 1  white white   yes    19
> > 2  white white    no   132
> > 3  white black   yes    11
> > 4  white black    no    52
> > 5  black white   yes     0
> > 6  black white    no     9
> > 7  black black   yes     6
> > 8  black black    no    97
> >
> > The xtabs() function doesn't seem appropriate, as it has no means of
> > using 'count'.
> >
> > This must be a common problem.
> >
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Robert A. LaBudde, PhD, PAS, Dpl. ACAFS  e-mail: ral at lcfltd.com
Least Cost Formulations, Ltd.            URL: http://lcfltd.com/
824 Timberlake Drive                     Tel: 757-467-0954
Virginia Beach, VA 23464-3239            Fax: 757-467-2947

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