It does print frequency stats, just not all of them. The reason it doesn't print all of them is that there could be thousands of them. If you want a table, use table()
-thomas On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Sam Steingold <s...@gnu.org> wrote: > summary() for a factor prints: > > ColName > SNDK : 72 > VXX : 36 > MWW : 30 > ACI : 28 > FRO : 28 > (Other):1801 > > it would have been much more useful if it additionally > printed frequency stats as if by > summary(aggregate(frame$ColName,by=list(frame$ColName),FUN=length)$x) > > -- > Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on CentOS release 5.3 (Final) > http://jihadwatch.org http://www.PetitionOnline.com/tap12009/ > http://camera.org http://honestreporting.com http://openvotingconsortium.org > Abandon all hope, all ye who press Enter. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Thomas Lumley Professor of Biostatistics University of Auckland ______________________________________________ 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.