this is wrong because with the command "unique" it counts the only values that are unique ..
in my column, for instance, 1 and 4 are not unique so the formula doesn't work in my case -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-count-the-number-of-different-elements-in-a-column-tp4650825p4650843.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.