I see! thanks.
On Sunday, 17 August 2014 14:56:29 UTC+1, Johan Sigfrids wrote:
>
> I think countmap comes closest to giving you what you want:
>
> using StatsBase
> data = sample(["a", "b", "c"], 20)
> countmap(data)
>
>
> Dict{ASCIIString,Int64} with 3 entries:
> "c" => 3
> "b" => 10
> "a" => 7
>
>
> On Sunday, August 17, 2014 4:45:21 PM UTC+3, Florian Oswald wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm looking for the best way to count how many times a certain value x_i
>> appears in vector x, where x could be integers, floats, strings. In R I
>> would do table(x). I found StatsBase.counts(x,k) but I'm a bit confused by
>> k (where k goes into 1:k, i.e. the vector is scanned to find how many
>> elements locate at each point of 1:k). most of the times I don't know k,
>> and in fact I would do table(x) just to find out what k was. Apart from
>> that, I don't think I could use this with strings, as I can't construct a
>> range object from strings.
>>
>> I'm wondering whether a method StatsBase.counts(x::Vector) just returning
>> the frequency of each element appearing would be useful.
>>
>> The same applies to Base.hist if I understand correctly. I just don't
>> want to have to specify the edges of bins.
>>
>>
>>
