[R] Dealing with a counted variable

Charles C. Berry cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu
Sat Jun 20 01:26:58 CEST 2009



See

?xtabs

and take note of the examples


HTH,

Chuck

On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, John Lipkins wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I sometimes receive data which has a following layout:
>
> Age     urban   count
>
> 34        X         13
>
> 64                    3
>
> In which count represents the amount of times a certain observation
> has been fulfilled. How ever when using this data in R I’m confronted
> with the fact that R can not use this data in it’s functions, for
> example table().
>
> Is there an easy solution for this problem?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
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