[R] count different words in a field

[David Winsemius]

On Nov 2, 2010, at 5:11 PM, Matevž Pavlič wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I started to ask this in the other post, but it is off topis...so  
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> I have a data.frame (created with the helpof this mail list) that  
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? table
 > tbl <- table(c("HUMUS", "SLABO", "MALO", "SLABO"))
 > tbl[order(tbl)][1]
HUMUS
     1

Just make a function that does this to a vector and use lapply(dfrm,  
func)  on the dataframe.

-- 
David.

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> 'data.frame':   22801 obs. of  15 variables:
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> $ V1 : chr  "HUMUS" "SLABO" "MALO" "SLABO" ...
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> $ V2 : chr  "IN" "GRANULIRAN" "PREPEREL" "VEZAN" ...
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> $ V3 : chr  "HUMUSNA" "PE©ÈEN" "MELJAST" ",KONGLOMERAT," ...
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> $ V4 : chr  "GLINA" "PROD" "PROD" "P0ROZEN," ...
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> $ V5 : chr  "Z" "DO" "DO" "S" ...
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> $ V6 : chr  "MALO" "r" "r" "PLASTMI" ...
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> $ V7 : chr  "PODA," "=" "=" "GFs," ...
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> $ V8 : chr  "LAHKO" "8Q" "60mm," "SIVORJAV" ...
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> $ V9 : chr  "GNETNA," "mm," "S" "" ...
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> $ V10: chr  "RJAVA" "S" "PRODNIKI," "" ...
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> $ V11: chr  "" "PRODNIKI" "MALO" "" ...
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> $ V12: chr  "" "DO" "PE©ÈEN" "" ...
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> $ V13: chr  "" "R" "S" "" ...
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> $ V14: chr  "" "=" "TANKIMI" "" ...
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> Is it possible to count which word occours most often in each field  
> (V1, V2, V3, ...) and which one is the second and so on. Ideally i  
> would like to create a table for each field (V1, V2, V3, ...) with  
> the prevailing word and the number of occurancies  of that word in  
> that field (column) .
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> Hope that explains it ok...
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> Thank you, m
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT