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 > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org Sabrina Friedman Billige Flüge Marketing GmbH Emanuelstr. 3, 10317 Berlin Deutschland Telefon: +49 (33) 5310967 Email: utebachme...@gmail.com Site: http://flug.airego.de - Billige Flüge vergleichen ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
