On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Hilmar M. Carders wrote:
> Is there an R function that gives the equivalent of the UNIX command
> "uniq -c" which could be applied to a vector with duplicate values?
There must be a better way to do this, but this would get you the
information you're looking for:
> z <- c("a","b","c","d","a","a","c")
> unique(z)
[1] "a" "b" "c" "d"
> lapply(unique(z),function(x){length(z[z==x])})
[[1]]
[1] 3
[[2]]
[1] 1
[[3]]
[1] 2
[[4]]
[1] 1
-J
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