Hi, Yes, the table() function is not to read the data, but to do the frequency counts of each level. I just included the read.table() part so that you could copy and paste my code, but I did not include the R output from table(dat).
> table(dat) dat A B C D 3 3 2 1 It nicely tallies for you. Also, you can look at a simple plot: # you will have to run this in your R # because I do not know an easy way to include graphs plot(table(dat)) You can also save the results in a new variable and then access portions of it: > my.table <- table(dat) > my.table # the full table dat A B C D 3 3 2 1 > my.table[2] # just extract the second element B 3 > Cheers, Josh On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:11 AM, dfong <df...@medicine.umaryland.edu> wrote: > > I'm actually importing it from a CSV, so I already have that in a table. But > i Can't make a graph with text. I assume I need to do some counting in order > to draw the graph? > Any example of this? > > thanks > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Data-Manipulation-tp2534662p2534690.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@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. > -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ R-help@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.