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Hard Core wrote > Hello, > Suppose that i have a dataframe > a <- read.dta("banca_impresa.dta") > > i have a column with 17900 obs like > > 1 > 2 > 3 > 1 > 6 > 7 > 8 > 3 > 4 > 4 > > and i want to know the number of the different values so in this case it > would be 7 > How can i do? > Thank you -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-count-the-number-of-different-elements-in-a-column-tp4650825p4650833.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.