[R] Merging two or more frequency tables

Rui Barradas ruipbarradas at sapo.pt
Thu Sep 20 00:18:44 CEST 2012


Hello,

Try the following.


fun <- function(x, ...){
     z <- Reduce(paste, list(x, ...))
     tsum <- table(strsplit(tolower(z), "\\W"))
     tsum
}

x <- "It was the age of wisdom it was the age of foolishness it was the 
epoch of belief"
y <- "it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light it was 
the season of Darkness"

fun(x, y)
z <- "It was the era of R"
fun(x, y, z)

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 19-09-2012 20:08, mcelis escreveu:
> I am new to R and am looking to merge two or more frequency tables into one.
> I have searched around but have been unable to find exactly what I need.
>
> I have two frequency tables obtained from two sample texts
>
> t0<-table(strsplit(tolower("It was the age of wisdom it was the age of
> foolishness it was the epoch of belief"), "\\W"))
> t1<-table(strsplit(tolower("it was the epoch of incredulity it was the
> season of Light it was the season of Darkness"), "\\W"))
>
> so I get:
>> t0
>          age      belief       epoch   foolishness      it          of
> the         was   wisdom
>              2               1                  1                      1
> 3           3             3               3                 1
>> t1
>     darkness       epoch   incredulity         it       light          of
> season         the   was
>                     1                 1                     1          3
> 1             3                 2              3        3
>
> I need to merge these two tables into one so that the frequencies for each
> word are added, e.g. the word "it"
> would have 6. So resulting table would be
>
>         age      belief    darkness       epoch    foolishness
> incredulity          it       light
>             2               1                    1                2
> 1                      1           6             1
>           of      season            the            was           wisdom
>             6                2                 6                  6
> 1
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
>
>
>
>
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