[R] question regarding conversion from factor to vector

Oliver Kullmann O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk
Fri Mar 26 17:37:53 CET 2010


Hello,

let me show you the following part of a session:

> table(E$singles)
     0      1      2      3      4      5      6      7      8     14     15
461752   5487     93    224    379    658   1099   4053      2   1868      1
    21     28     29     35     42     49     50     56     63     70     77
   904    560      1    348    275    126      1    156    103     71     63
    84     91     98    105    112    119    126    133    134    140    147
    51     35     37     16     19     17     14     27      1     20     17
   154    161    168    169    175    182    189    196    203    210    217
    16      8      7      1      7     12      5      6      3      8      4
   224    231    245    252    259    266    273    280    287    294    301
     6      5      5      1      2      3      4      2      2      1      2
   315    329    336    343    364    385    386    399    441    476    560
     2      2      1      2      3      2      1      1      1      1      1
> as.numeric(as.vector(as.data.frame(table(E$singles))$Var1)) %% 7
 [1] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
[39] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0

As you can see, the values of column "singles" of dataframe E show
a strong regularity w.r.t. multiples of 7, and with the second line
I checked that.

Now I hope that there is a better way to get the vector of values out
of the table-result? First I convert it into a dataframe, to get a
name for the two vectors constituting the table, then a get a vector
of strings(!), which are then converted to integers.

By the way, the type of E$singles is integers.

Thanks for your help!

Oliver



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