Hi, On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:48 PM, ADias <diasan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have done like this to get the result I need more directly > > A<-c("Tell me how many different letter this vector has?") > prop.table(table(strsplit(A,""))) > > ? a c d e f h i l m n o r s > t > 0.16 0.02 0.04 0.02 0.02 0.14 0.04 0.06 0.04 0.06 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.06 0.04 > 0.10 > T v w y > 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 > > two questios: > > 1) is there a direct way of making capital "T" the same as lower case "t"?
See ?chartr for character case conversion. > > 2) And can I avoid on the strslipt function to exclude the "?" and the > spaces between words? > > I know I can do: > > x<-table(strsplit(A, "")) > ] >> x > > a c d e f h i l m n o r s t T v w y > 2 1 1 7 2 3 2 3 2 2 2 3 2 5 1 1 1 1 > > My question is always to find out if there's a more direct way of doing > this? Seems pretty direct to me... what exactly are you looking for? > > Regards, > A.Dias > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Relative-frequency-on-a-character-vector-tp3221319p3223966.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Ista Zahn Graduate student University of Rochester Department of Clinical and Social Psychology http://yourpsyche.org ______________________________________________ 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.