I can think of several ways to blunt force hard code what I want but I imagine there is a command or two that can be easily combined to do this:
I have a data frame with about 23000 observations. There first variable is the group to which the observation belongs (about 500 different groups). The second variable is a response for each observation that is a 1,2,3,4 or 5. I want to be able to calculate the percentage of each group that choose each response. For example I want to know what percentage of group 1 (which may have a value of 34456) choose response 1 and so on. Here is some code I wrote that generates a data frame like the one I have. pop <- matrix(1:100000) groupIDs <- sample(pop,500) groupVar <- sample(groupIDs,23000,replace=TRUE) responseVar <- sample(1:5,23000,replace=TRUE) example.data <- data.frame(groupVar,responseVar) Is there a fast way to calculate these percentages beyond writing loops to manually count the responses for each of the groups? Thanks, EG [[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.