Counting the frequency of unique values - R

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I am working with the 'mtcars' data-set:

                   mpg cyl disp  hp drat    wt  qsec vs am gear carb
Mazda RX4         21.0   6  160 110 3.90 2.620 16.46  0  1    4    4
Mazda RX4 Wag     21.0   6  160 110 3.90 2.875 17.02  0  1    4    4
Datsun 710        22.8   4  108  93 3.85 2.320 18.61  1  1    4    1
Hornet 4 Drive    21.4   6  258 110 3.08 3.215 19.44  1  0    3    1
Hornet Sportabout 18.7   8  360 175 3.15 3.440 17.02  0  0    3    2
Valiant           18.1   6  225 105 2.76 3.460 20.22  1  0    3    1

I want to find out the number of frequency of unique values for the 'cyl' column, i.e, number of occurences of each value. 

May 18, 2018 in Data Analytics by nirvana
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3 answers to this question.

+1 vote

table() function will help you out in this case:

table(mtcars$cyl)

 4  6  8 
11  7 14

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answered May 18, 2018 by Bharani
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how to visualize it so that it will that particular element along with it's frequency

You can use plyr module. It will give you the frequency count. You can see the below example.

> library("plyr")
> count(mtcars, 'gear')
  gear freq
1    3   15
2    4   12
3    5    5
+1 vote

Try this,

lapply(mtcars,function(x){ length(unique(x))})

answered Aug 20, 2019 by anonymous
• 33,030 points
+1 vote

Hi,

You can use plyr module. It will give you the frequency count. You can see the below example.

> library("plyr")
> count(mtcars, 'gear')
  gear freq
1    3   15
2    4   12
3    5    5
answered Dec 14, 2020 by MD
• 95,440 points

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