Re: [R] write a loop for tallies

2010-06-24 Thread Joris Meys
It would help if you placed r <- 0; s <- 0 etc. outside the loop. Same goes for cat(...). And get rid of the sum(r), sum(s) and so on, that's doing nothing (r,s,... are single numbers) This said : See Peter Langfelder's response. Cheers Joris > # see ?table for a better approach > r<-0 > s<-0 >

Re: [R] write a loop for tallies

2010-06-24 Thread Erik Iverson
On average, any data manipulation that can be described in a sentence or two of English can be programmed in one line in R. If you find yourself writing a long 'for' loop to do something that sounds simple, take a step back and research if an existing combination of functions can easily handle y

Re: [R] write a loop for tallies

2010-06-24 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 3:16 PM, john polo wrote: > Dear R users, > > I have a list of numbers such as > >> n > [1] 3000 4000 5000 3000 5000 6000 4000 5000 7000 5000 6000 7000 > > and i'd like to set up a loop that will keep track of the number of > occurences of each of the values that occur in t

[R] write a loop for tallies

2010-06-24 Thread john polo
Dear R users, I have a list of numbers such as > n [1] 3000 4000 5000 3000 5000 6000 4000 5000 7000 5000 6000 7000 and i'd like to set up a loop that will keep track of the number of occurences of each of the values that occur in the list, e.g. 3000: 2 4000: 2 5000: 4 I came up with the fol