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)
>
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