Hi elaborating answers you already got
sapply(X, function(m){nlevels(factor(m$latitudes))}) tapply(N$latitudes, N$species, function(x) nlevels(factor(x))) shall do the trick Petr From: å¼ ä»¥æ¥ [mailto:yczh...@nigpas.ac.cn] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 2:58 PM To: PIKAL Petr Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: RE: [R] how to get the numbers of factors in a matrix Dear Pikal, Thank you very much for your answer. I think your example is just the problem I have. In the following example you gave to me, > > ff<-factor(letters[1:5]) > > levels(ff[1:2]) > [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" > > fff<-ff[1:2] > > nlevels(fff) > [1] 5 > > > fff > [1] a b > Levels: a b c d e In my understanding, fff is a subset of ff. Why fff's levels is not "a, b" but "a,b,c,d,e". My problem is quite similar to the example. I just want to split the matrix into many subsets and calculate the levels of every subset. Can you tell me how to do? Thank you very much! Best regards, Yichun > -----åå§é®ä»¶----- > å件人: "PIKAL Petr" > <petr.pi...@precheza.cz<mailto:petr.pi...@precheza.cz>> > åéæ¶é´: 2014å¹´1æ21æ¥ ææäº > æ¶ä»¶äºº: "å¼ ä»¥æ¥" <yczh...@nigpas.ac.cn<mailto:yczh...@nigpas.ac.cn>>, > "r-help@r-project.org<mailto:r-help@r-project.org>" > <r-help@r-project.org<mailto:r-help@r-project.org>> > æé: > 主é¢: RE: [R] how to get the numbers of factors in a matrix > > Hi > > It is rather difficult to understand what problem you have. > > post some data e.g. by > > dput(head(bigmatrix)) > > Maybe your problem is in a factor feature that it preserves also empty levels > until you specifically drop them. > > > ff<-factor(letters[1:5]) > > levels(ff[1:2]) > [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" > > fff<-ff[1:2] > > nlevels(fff) > [1] 5 > > > fff > [1] a b > Levels: a b c d e > > Regards > Petr > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org<mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org> > > [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > > project.org<mailto:r-help-bounces@r-%0b%3e %3e project.org>] On Behalf Of > > ??? > > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 7:36 AM > > To: r-help@r-project.org<mailto:r-help@r-project.org> > > Subject: [R] how to get the numbers of factors in a matrix > > > > Dear friends, > > > > > > I have a question do not know how to resolve. > > > > > > I have a big matrix composed of different columns (I use N here). A > > column is "species" and another one is "latitudes". Now, I want to know > > how I can get the number of different "latitudes" for every "species". > > I have tried to split the matrix according to species (X<-split(N, > > N$species) and then use sapply(X, function(m){nlevels(m$latitudes)}) to > > get that. But the result shows the total factor numbers of "latitudes" > > but not the factor numbers of every species I splitted. Also, I have > > tried to use tapply(N$latitudes, N$species, nlevels) to do this. The > > result is the same. I am confused about this. Can someone help me with > > that? 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