I want to count the unique combinations of a variable that appear per group. For example:
df <- data.frame(id = c(1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,4,4,4,5,6,6,7,7,7),
status = c("a","b","c","a","b","c","b","c","b","c","d","b","b","c","b","c", "d"))
> df
id status
1 1 a
2 1 b
3 1 c
4 2 a
5 2 b
6 2 c
7 3 b
8 3 c
9 4 b
10 4 c
11 4 d
12 5 b
13 6 b
14 6 c
15 7 b
16 7 c
17 7 d
So that, for example, I can tally how many times a given combination of "status" appears. By hand, for example, I see that "a,b,c" appears twice total (id's 1 and 2).
These seem to be similar questions, but I couldn't work out how to do it and with clearer explanation in R: Counting unique combinations Count of unique combinations despite order
The result I think I am looking for would be something like:
abc 2
bc 3
b 1
...
An option with tidyverse where group by 'id', paste the 'status' and get the count
library(dplyr)
library(stringr)
df %>%
group_by(id) %>%
summarise(status = str_c(status, collapse="")) %>%
count(status)
# A tibble: 4 x 2
# status n
# <chr> <int>
#1 abc 2
#2 b 1
#3 bc 2
#4 bcd 2