R users, I don't know if I can make myself clear but I'll give it a try. I have a data.frame like this
x <- "var1,var2,var3,var4 a,b,b,a b,b,c,b c,a,a,a a,b,c,c b,a,c,a c,c,b,b a,c,a,b b,c,a,c c,a,b,c" DF <- read.table(textConnection(x), header=T, sep=",") DF and I would like to sum all the combinations/occurences by a factor (letter in this case) between variables and produce a list of "occurrence" matrices. For example in this case the "occurrence" matrix (first element of list) for factor "a" should look like this >occulist $a var1 var2 var3 var4 var1 x 0 1 1 var2 0 x 1 2 var3 1 1 x 1 var4 1 2 1 x $b etc. because there is two rows where var2 and var4 has "a" DF[DF$var2=="a" & DF$var4=="a",] Can you give an advice how to achieve this kind of a list of matrices? -Lauri ______________________________________________ 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.