[R] How to count numbers of a vector and use them as index values?from Sabrina

[Sabrina Friedman]

Hi Paul,

I would use something like this:

> x <- c(2,2,3,3,4,6)
> table(x)
x
2 3 4 6
2 2 1 1
> x <- factor(x, levels=1:8)
> table(x)
x
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
0 2 2 1 0 1 0 0

Sarah

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Paul Menzel
<paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Dear R folks,
>
>
> I am sorry to ask this simple question, but my search for the right
> way/command was unsuccessful.
>
> I have a vector
>
>> x <- c(2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 6)
>
> Now the values of x should be considered the index of another vector
> with possible greater length, say 8, and the value should be how often
> the indexes appeared in the original vector x.
>
>> length(result)
>  [1] 8
>> result
>  [1] 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 0
>
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Paul
>



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