On Oct 13, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Bhupendrasinh Thakre wrote:

HI Team,

I am currently working on problem and stumped on "for" loop.

Data:

structure(list(Coutry = structure(c(3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 2L, 2L, 1L,
1L), .Label = c("J", "M", "U"), class = "factor"), State = structure(c(1L,
1L, 4L, 2L, 5L, 5L, 3L, 6L), .Label = c("A", "C", "K", "O", "S",
"T"), class = "factor"), City = structure(c(1L, 8L, 7L, 2L, 3L,
6L, 5L, 4L), .Label = c("BEN", "HRD", "JKL", "KK", "KL", "KMM",
"OKC", "TYU"), class = "factor"), Char1 = structure(c(1L, 2L,
1L, 3L, 4L, 2L, 3L, 5L), .Label = c("A", "B", "C", "D", "M"), class = "factor"), Char2 = structure(c(1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 2L), .Label = c("ABCD",
   "EFGH", "FGHJ", "GGGG"), class = "factor"), Char3 = structure(c(1L,
   1L, 2L, 3L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 3L), .Label = c("ASDFG", "DDDDD",
   "EEEEEE"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("Coutry", "State",
"City", "Char1", "Char2", "Char3"), row.names = c(NA, -8L), class = "data.frame")

Question:

I am trying to create a pivot table which will count the occurrences of Char1 : Char4 from the columns Coutry, State, City. I am not sure to use all the four columns and get something like

structure(list(Group.1 = structure(1:4, .Label = c("ABCD", "EFGH",
"FGHJ", "GGGG"), class = "factor"), x = c(2L, 3L, 1L, 2L)), .Names = c("Group.1",
"x"), row.names = c(NA, -4L), class = "data.frame")

Code which I tried to use with not best results:

aggregate(State, list(Char2), FUN="count")

You are apparently using attach() on your dataframe. That will often create confusion. Better to use with():

?with

For your problem without `attach` these are available:

> table(dat$Char2)

ABCD EFGH FGHJ GGGG
   2    3    1    2


> aggregate(dat$Char2, dat['Char2'], length)
  Char2 x
1  ABCD 2
2  EFGH 3
3  FGHJ 1
4  GGGG 2

With attach() in effect for your dataframe this would have worked as well:

> aggregate(Char2, list(Char2), length)
  Group.1 x
1    ABCD 2
2    EFGH 3
3    FGHJ 1
4    GGGG 2

'count' is not a base R function, although it may be available in some packages. If you have other packages you are loading, you should name them.

If you want to get tabulations of all the columns that have "Char" in their names

> sapply(dat[ grep("Char", names(dat)) ], table)
$Char1

A B C D M
2 2 2 1 1

$Char2

ABCD EFGH FGHJ GGGG
   2    3    1    2

$Char3

 ASDFG  DDDDD EEEEEE
     4      2      2

--

David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA

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