R help - Feb 2011 - summary for factors is not very informative

summary() for a factor prints:

     ColName
  SNDK  :  72
  VXX   :  36
  MWW   :  30
  ACI   :  28
  FRO   :  28
 (Other):1801

it would have been much more useful if it additionally
printed frequency stats as if by
summary(aggregate(frame$ColName,by=list(frame$ColName),FUN=length)$x)

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It does print frequency stats, just not all of them.  The reason it
doesn't print all of them is that there could be thousands of them.
If you want a table, use table()

     -thomas

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Sam Steingold <sds at gnu.org>
wrote:
> summary() for a factor prints:
>
> ? ? ColName
> ?SNDK ?: ?72
> ?VXX ? : ?36
> ?MWW ? : ?30
> ?ACI ? : ?28
> ?FRO ? : ?28
> ?(Other):1801
>
> it would have been much more useful if it additionally
> printed frequency stats as if by
> summary(aggregate(frame$ColName,by=list(frame$ColName),FUN=length)$x)
>
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