Thanks for all your replies. I am using rowsum() and it looks efficient. I
hope I could do some benchmark sometime in near future and let people know.
Or is there any benchmark result available?
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Bert Gunter <gunter.ber...@gene.com>wrote:
> Inline below:
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Jorge I Velez <jorgeivanve...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Zhenjiang,
> >
> > Try
> >
> > table(unlist(mapply(function(x, y) rep(x, y), y, x)))
>
> Yikes! How about simply tapply(x,y,sum) ??
> ?tapply
>
> -- Bert
> >
> > HTH,
> > Jorge
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:45 PM, zhenjiang xu <> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi R users,
> >>
> >> suppose I have two vectors,
> >> > x=c(1,2,3,4,5)
> >> > y=c('a','b','c','a','c')
> >> How can I get a data.frame like this?
> >> > xy
> >> count
> >> a 5
> >> b 2
> >> c 8
> >>
> >> I know a few ways to fulfill the task. However, I have a huge number
> >> of this kind calculations, so I'd like an efficient solution. Thanks
> >>
> >> --
> >> Best,
> >> Zhenjiang
> >>
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