R help - Jun 2009 - Dealing with a counted variable

Dear all,

I sometimes receive data which has a following layout:

Age???? urban?? count

34??????? X???????? 13

64??????????????????? 3

In which count represents the amount of times a certain observation
has been fulfilled. How ever when using this data in R I?m confronted
with the fact that R can not use this data in it?s functions, for
example table().

Is there an easy solution for this problem?

Thanks!

Regards,

John

See

?xtabs

and take note of the examples


HTH,

Chuck

On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, John Lipkins wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I sometimes receive data which has a following layout:
>
> Age???? urban?? count
>
> 34??????? X???????? 13
>
> 64??????????????????? 3
>
> In which count represents the amount of times a certain observation
> has been fulfilled. How ever when using this data in R I?m confronted
> with the fact that R can not use this data in it?s functions, for
> example table().
>
> Is there an easy solution for this problem?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
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