R help - Jul 2004 - replacing values in a matrix or data.frame

Hi,

I have a matrix where I want to replace the entries of each column by the 
proportion value of the times each entrie appears in that column, that is, In 
each column there 4 to 10 repeated values, for wich i can compute frequencies 
in the respective column, and then i want to replace each value for its 
respective frequencie in another matrix. Can someone help me?

Thanks for all the help.
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Hi,

you could try something like this,

x <- matrix(sample(1:10,25, rep=TRUE), 5 ,5)
x

apply(x, 2, function(y){
  a <- table(y)
  rep(a/sum(a), a)
})


I hope this helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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Dimitris Rizopoulos
Doctoral Student
Biostatistical Centre
School of Public Health
Catholic University of Leuven

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>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a matrix where I want to replace the entries of each column
by the
> proportion value of the times each entrie appears in that column,
that is, In
> each column there 4 to 10 repeated values, for wich i can compute
frequencies
> in the respective column, and then i want to replace each value for
its
> respective frequencie in another matrix. Can someone help me?
>
> Thanks for all the help.
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> http://acesso.portugalmail.pt/contas
>
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