[R] Proportions again

Andrew Robinson
2004-02-29T14:44:15Z

table(sex)/length(sex)

Andrew

On Sunday 29 February 2004 06:35, Carlos Mauricio Cardeal Mendes
wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I asked before and it was great, cause as a beginner I learned a lot. But,
if I have this in R (1 and 2 are codes for sex):
> > sex<-c(1,2,2,1,1,2,2,2)
> > sex
>
> [1] 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 2
>
> I?d like to obtain the proportion according to sex.So I type:
> > prop.table(sex)
>
> [1] 0.07692308 0.15384615 0.15384615 0.07692308 0.07692308 0.15384615
> 0.15384615 [8] 0.15384615
>
> The result is OK, but I expected to see a simple frequency table or
> something like that:
>
> 1   0.375
> 2   0.625
>      1.0
>
> How can I get this ?
>
> Thank you very much
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