that is awesome, thank you Jim! 2014/1/22 jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com>: > try: > > table(dataframe$religion[!duplicated(dataframe$name)]) > > > Jim Holtman > Data Munger Guru > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Simone Gabbriellini > <simone.gabbriell...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear List, >> >> I have a data.frame like this: >> >> name religion neighbor religion.neighbor >> pippo a minnie a >> pluto a mickey a >> paperino b donald a >> paperino b minnie b >> >> when I table(dataframe$religion) my data.frame, I get >> a b >> 2 2 >> >> of course, "paperino" is cited twice but should be counted once. Is >> there anything I can do in order to keep the data.frame the way it is >> but tell R to count values once if they are repeated? >> >> the point is that each row represent a relation, thus I cannot simply >> remove duplicates... >> >> any help more than welcome! >> >> Best regards, >> Simone >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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.
-- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Simone Gabbriellini, PhD Post-doctoral Researcher ANR founded research project "DIFFCERAM" GEMASS, CNRS & Paris-Sorbonne. mobile: +39 340 39 75 626 email: simone.gabbriell...@cnrs.fr ______________________________________________ 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.