R help - Oct 2010 - Count values in a dataframe with respect to groups

Dear all,

I am looking for a function to count values belonging to a class within a
dataframe (and ignore NAs).

grp = c(1,1,1, 1,2, 2,2)
val = c(2,1,5,NA,3,NA,1)

dta = data.frame(grp=grp, val=val)

The result should look like:

grp count
 1    3
 2    2

At the moment, I am trying to find a function for FUN in aggregate, but with no
success. Can anybody help me?

Thanks in advance.
Marcus

Try this:

aggregate(val ~ grp, dta, length)


On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Marcus Drescher <drescher@tum.de> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am looking for a function to count values belonging to a class within a
> dataframe (and ignore NAs).
>
> grp = c(1,1,1, 1,2, 2,2)
> val = c(2,1,5,NA,3,NA,1)
>
> dta = data.frame(grp=grp, val=val)
>
> The result should look like:
>
> grp count
>  1    3
>  2    2
>
> At the moment, I am trying to find a function for FUN in aggregate, but
> with no success. Can anybody help me?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Marcus
>
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Have a look at table

table(na.omit(dta)$grp)

Untested!

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> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: r-help-bounces at r-project.org 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] Namens Marcus Drescher
> Verzonden: vrijdag 8 oktober 2010 16:29
> Aan: r-help at r-project.org
> Onderwerp: [R] Count values in a dataframe with respect to groups
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I am looking for a function to count values belonging to a 
> class within a dataframe (and ignore NAs).
> 
> grp = c(1,1,1, 1,2, 2,2)
> val = c(2,1,5,NA,3,NA,1)
> 
> dta = data.frame(grp=grp, val=val)
> 
> The result should look like:
> 
> grp count
>  1    3
>  2    2
> 
> At the moment, I am trying to find a function for FUN in 
> aggregate, but with no success. Can anybody help me?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Marcus
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at 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.
>