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R: frequency with group by ID

I have a data frame like this: 

ID Cont
1   a
1   a
1   b
2   a
2   c
2   d

I need to report the frequence of "Cont" by ID. The output should be

ID Cont Freq
1   a    2
1   b    1
2   a    1
2   c    1
2   d    1
Solution

  • Using dplyr, you can group_by both ID and Cont and summarise using n() to get Freq:

    library(dplyr)
res <- df %>% group_by(ID,Cont) %>% summarise(Freq=n())
##Source: local data frame [5 x 3]
##Groups: ID [?]
##
##     ID   Cont  Freq
##  <int> <fctr> <int>
##1     1      a     2
##2     1      b     1
##3     2      a     1
##4     2      c     1
##5     2      d     1

    Data:

    df <- structure(list(ID = c(1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L), Cont = structure(c(1L, 
1L, 2L, 1L, 3L, 4L), .Label = c("a", "b", "c", "d"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("ID", 
"Cont"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -6L))
##  ID Cont
##1  1    a
##2  1    a
##3  1    b
##4  2    a
##5  2    c
##6  2    d