[R] Fwd: Counting number of values by row (text, not numbers)

Hi everyone! I am very new to R and I am having some difficulties. My data set looks something like this: subjectA                B                C    D               E 1 cat             monkey       cat dog            cat 2 cat

Re: [R] Fwd: Counting number of values by row (text, not numbers)

Hi Laura, Usually this kind of thing is easier if you put your data into a long format. I would use something like Dat - read.table(textConnection(subject A B C D E 1 cat monkey cat dog cat 2 cat cat cat cat dog), header=TRUE) library(reshape) m.Dat - melt(Dat, id=subject) xtabs(~subject+value,