in the future, please provide R code to re-create some example data :) read http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-examplefor more detail..
# create a data table with three unique columns' values.. # treat these values just like letters x <- cbind( sample( LETTERS[1:6] , 100 , replace = TRUE ) , sample( LETTERS[1:6] , 100 , replace = TRUE ) , sample( LETTERS[1:6] , 100 , replace = TRUE ) ) # look at x.. this is good data i hope? x # convert this to a matrix y <- as.matrix( x ) # i don't think you care about ordering, so sort left-to-rightwards z <- apply( y , 2 , sort ) # look at your results z # paste these results together across the matrix w <- apply( z , 1 , paste0 , collapse = "" ) # count the final distinct results table( w ) On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Niklas Fischer <niklasfischer...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear R users, > > I have three questions measuring close relationships. > The questions are same and the respondents put the answer in order. > > I'd like to examine the pattern of answers and visualize it. > > For example q1 (A,B,C,D,E) and q2 and q3 are the same. If the respondents > selects A B C (so BCA or BAC or CBA or CAB), I'd like to construct > frequency table for ABC and other combinations for example DEF. > > > Unfortunately, there are many answers, and three-way contingency table > includes lots of cells which make it diffucult to interpret and requires > lots of extra work to organize data. > > What is the best way to construct fruequency table of these kind of > variables and to visulize the results with the most simple form > > > All the bests, > Niklas > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.