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table(mydata$day) Works with any type of character input. Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Kai Mx wrote > > Hi all, > probably really simple: I seem to be lacking some understanding for the > character class: I have a bunch of dates in a dataframe and I want to add > a > string variable with the weekday for each date. If I use something like > mydata$day <- weekdays (mydata$date), I can create subsets for each > weekday > (eg mydata=="Monday"), but summary (mydata$day) doesn't count the > instances > for each day but returns something like > > Length Class Mode > 340 character character > > How can I get a proper summary (=count)? > > Thanks, > > Kai > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@ 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. > -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/summary-for-weekdays-tp4627108p4627441.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
