Hi
r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 18.01.2011 13:51:05:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have this character vector:
>
> A<-c("Tell me how many different letter this vector has?")
>
> Is there a way with R that it can let me know how many different letters
I
> have on this vector?
A<-c("Tell me how many different letter this vector has?")
x<-strsplit(A, "")
> x
[[1]]
[1] "T" "e" "l" "l" " " "m" "e" " " "h" "o" "w" " " "m" "a" "n" "y" " "
"d" "i"
[20] "f" "f" "e" "r" "e" "n" "t" " " "l" "e" "t" "t" "e" "r" " " "t" "h"
"i" "s"
[39] " " "v" "e" "c" "t" "o" "r" " " "h" "a" "s" "?"
> table(x)
x
? a c d e f h i l m n o r s t T v w y
8 1 2 1 1 7 2 3 2 3 2 2 2 3 2 5 1 1 1 1
> length(table(x))
[1] 20
>
Regards
Petr
BTW. There are help pages coming with R installation. Do you have them
corrupted? There is strsplit in see also section of nchar help page.
>
> If I use nchar(A) que gives me the number 50. With this function he is
> counting all the letters present and also spaces between the words. Can
we
> also not count the spaces between words?
>
> Then after I knew how many different letters there were on the vector I
> wanted to table the number of times each letter is present to calculate
the
> relative frequency of each.
>
> Is this possible with R?
>
> Many thanks
> A.Dias
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