table(data1$ID, data1$Year)

See ?table and other functions referenced in ?table.



Tom La Bone wrote:
Assume that I have the dataframe "data1", which is listed at the end of this
message. I want count the number of lines that each person has for each
year. For example, the person with ID=213 has 15 entries (NinYear) for 1953.
The following bit of code calculates NinYear:

for (i in 1:length(data1$ID)) {
  data1$NinYear[i] <- length(data1[data1$Year==data1$Year[i] &
    data1$ID==data1$ID[i],1]) }

This seems to work but is horribly slow (some files I am working with have
over 500,000 lines). Can anyone suggest a faster way of doing this, perhaps
a way that does not use a for loop? Thanks.

Tom

ID      Year    NinYear
209     1971    0
209     1971    0
213     1951    0
213     1951    0
213     1953    0
213     1953    0
213     1953    0
213     1953    0
213     1953    0
213     1953    0
213     1953    0
213     1953    0
213     1953    0
213     1953    0
213     1953    0
213     1953    0
213     1953    0
213     1953    0
213     1953    0
213     1954    0
213     1954    0
213     1954    0
213     1954    0
213     1954    0
213     1954    0
213     1954    0
213     1954    0
213     1954    0
213     1954    0
213     1954    0
213     1955    0
213     1955    0
234     1953    0
234     1953    0
234     1953    0
234     1953    0
234     1953    0
234     1958    0
234     1958    0
234     1965    0
234     1965    0
234     1965    0
249     1952    0
249     1952    0




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