Hi Robin,

does this help:

x <- table(c(1,1,1,1,2,20))
matrix(c(as.numeric(names(x)), x), ncol=length(x), byrow=TRUE, dimnames=NULL)


Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Hankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 1:18 PM
Subject: [R] output from table() in matrix form



Hi

How do I get the output from table() in matrix form?

If I have

R>  table(c(1,1,1,1,2,20))

 1  2 20
 4  1  1

I want

     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]    1    2   20
[2,]    4    1    1


The problem is that names(table) is a vector of characters and I need the numeric values.


I am using

R>  rbind(as.integer(names(x)),x)




I thought tabulate() might be better as it takes an integer-valued vector, but it isn't
quite right because the default bins are 1:20 and I don't want the zeroes.


The following is a little clunky:

R> x <- rbind(1:20,tabulate(c(1,1,1,1,2,20)))
R> x[,x[2,]>0]
     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]    1    2   20
[2,]    4    1    1


Is there a better way? It seems inelegant to coerce a character vector back to integers,
but OTOH it's wasteful to have 20 bins when I only need 3. My real application would have
maybe a dozen distinct (prime) integers in the range 2 up to about 1e4.






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Robin Hankin
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