Thanks, that's helpful because I can see the individuals and how many times they accessed: The 'plyr' solution of Karl Ove Hufthammer gives me the exact summary statistics that I'm looking for. Jab
--- On Fri, 13/11/09, markle...@verizon.net <markle...@verizon.net> wrote: From: markle...@verizon.net <markle...@verizon.net> Subject: Re: Re: [R] processing log file To: jabez...@yahoo.co.uk Date: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 16:36 Hi: I think below does what you want but it doesn't come out formatted very nicely. Maybe someone can show you the formatting ? Good luck. table.users <- read.table(textConnection("Date UserName Machine 2008-11-25 John 641 2008-11-25 Clive 611 2008-11-25 Jeremy 641 2008-11-25 Walt 722 2008-11-25 Tony 645 2008-11-26 Tony 645 2008-11-26 Tony 641 2008-11-26 Tony 641 2008-11-26 Walt 641 2008-11-26 Walt 645 2008-11-30 John 641 2008-11-30 Clive 611 2008-11-30 Tony 641 2008-11-30 John 641 2008-11-30 John 641"),header=TRUE,as.is=TRUE) print(table.users) print(str(table.users)) lapply(split(table.users,table.users$Date),function(.df) { table(.df$Machine) }) lapply(split(table.users,table.users$Date),function(.df) { table(.df$UserName) }) On Nov 13, 2009, Karl Ove Hufthammer <k...@huftis.org> wrote: On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:03:31 +0000 (GMT) Jabez Wilson <jabez...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > What I want to do is to find out how many unique users logged > on each day, and how many individual machines where accessed per day. Use the 'plyr' package: library(plyr) ddply(table.users, .(Date), summarise, users=length(unique(Username)), machines=length(unique(Machine))) -- Karl Ove Hufthammer ______________________________________________ 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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