[R] Table of Summaries

sedm1000 gdoran at mit.edu
Wed Jun 3 15:43:29 CEST 2009


Thanks for all your help guys - turns out it was a very simple request, 

table1<-table(DF$COLUMN1,DF$COLUMN2)

did the trick. I've much to learn...

Cheers.



sedm1000 wrote:
> 
> Apologies for the novice question, but this is likely beyond my google
> searching range..
> 
> I am trying to create a table from the summaries of a file. The 2 column
> data table looks like;
> 
> Harry  335/335   
> Harry  124/506     
> Harry  124/506     
> Dick   133           
> Tom    335/335    
> Tom    335/335   
> 
> with 1000 unique values in col 1, 300 unique in col 2. The  'summary'
> doesn't seem to handle this many values well.
> 
> I would like to summarise this data in a table that reads the number of
> occurences of the values of col 2  for each unique name in col 1...
> 
> Along the lines...
> 
>           335/335  124/506  133
> Tom        2            0            0
> Dick        0            0            1
> Harry       1            2            0
> 
> I hope I can trouble someone for their expert advice on what is likely a
> trivial matter...
> Many thanks.
> 

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