Thanks for this Gabor, Sometimes weights can take various values, like 0.9 > rep(letters[1:3], c(1, 0.9, 1.6)) [1] "a" "c"
What if the weight variable would be: my.data$weight <- c(0.4, 2, 1.3, 0.9, 1) The way I found the solution was to compute the unweighted table, then find the weight for each unique combination and multiply that with the corresponding row-column entry in the table. The solution though is not very satisfactory: my.data$var1 <- as.factor(my.data$var1) my.data$var2 <- as.factor(my.data$var2) total <- expand.grid(levels(my.data$var1), levels(my.data$var2)) rowsmy.data <- apply(unique(my.data[,1:2]), 1, paste, collapse="") rowstotal <- apply(total, 1, paste, collapse="") total$weight <- 0 total$weight[sapply(rowsmy.data, function(x) which(rowstotal == x))] <- unique(my.data)[,3] (unweighted <- table(my.data$var1, my.data$var2)) round(unweighted*total$weight, 0) Yet another question: how would the weight variable be applied to correlate two numerical variables? Best, Adrian On Saturday 14 October 2006 16:00, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > Try this: > > table(lapply(my.data, rep, my.data$weight)[1:2]) > > On 10/14/06, Adrian Dusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > This is probably a stupid question for which I have a solution, which > > unfortunately is not as straighforward as I'd like. I wonder if there's a > > simple way to apply a weighting variable for the cases of a dataframe > > (well I'm sure there is, I just cannot find it). > > > > My toy example: > > > my.data <- data.frame(var1=c("c", "e", "a", "d", "b"), > > > > var2=c("E", "B", "A", "C", "D"), > > weight=c(1, 2, 1, 1, 1)) > > > > > table(my.data$var1, my.data$var2) > > > > A B C D E > > a 1 0 0 0 0 > > b 0 0 0 1 0 > > c 0 0 0 0 1 > > d 0 0 1 0 0 > > e 0 1 0 0 0 > > > > Applying the weight variable, the table should yield a value of 2 for the > > "eB" > > > > combination: > > > table(my.data$var1, my.data$var2) > > > > A B C D E > > a 1 0 0 0 0 > > b 0 0 0 1 0 > > c 0 0 0 0 1 > > d 0 0 1 0 0 > > e 0 2 0 0 0 > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Adrian > > > > -- > > Adrian Dusa > > Romanian Social Data Archive > > 1, Schitu Magureanu Bd > > 050025 Bucharest sector 5 > > Romania > > Tel./Fax: +40 21 3126618 \ > > +40 21 3120210 / int.101 > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. -- Adrian Dusa Romanian Social Data Archive 1, Schitu Magureanu Bd 050025 Bucharest sector 5 Romania Tel./Fax: +40 21 3126618 \ +40 21 3120210 / int.101 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.