R help - Aug 2003 - filter factors with min. freq

Hi,

i use a data.frame with ~ 80.000 observations
and one attribute is a factor with
~ 7300 levels. Is there a easy step which allow
me to filter out the the data with minimum frequencies i.e. 20
cases per  level.
So existing levels with < 20 cases in this factor attribute  are deleted
from data.frame.

many thanks and regards,
christian

Christian Schulz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i use a data.frame with ~ 80.000 observations
> and one attribute is a factor with
> ~ 7300 levels. Is there a easy step which allow
> me to filter out the the data with minimum frequencies i.e. 20
> cases per  level.
> So existing levels with < 20 cases in this factor attribute  are deleted
> from data.frame.
> 
> many thanks and regards,
> christian
Why not calculating a table for that factor and removing those levels 
with n_i < 20 ?

Uwe Ligges

In the Hmisc package see function combine.levels


On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 09:06:21 +0200
"Christian Schulz" <ozric at web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i use a data.frame with ~ 80.000 observations
> and one attribute is a factor with
> ~ 7300 levels. Is there a easy step which allow
> me to filter out the the data with minimum frequencies i.e. 20
> cases per  level.
> So existing levels with < 20 cases in this factor attribute  are deleted
> from data.frame.
> 
> many thanks and regards,
> christian
> 
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