countrep {prob} | R Documentation |
Counts the number of repetitions of vals
in a given vector x
.
countrep(x, ...) ## Default S3 method: countrep(x, vals = unique(x), nrep = 2, ...) ## S3 method for class 'data.frame': countrep(x, ...)
x |
an object in which repeats should be counted. |
vals |
values that may be repeated. |
nrep |
exact number of repeats desired, defaults to pairs. |
... |
further arguments to be passed to or from other methods. |
This is a generic function, with methods supplied for data frames and vectors. The default behavior counts the number of pairs of elements of x
. One can find the number of triples, etc., by changing the nrep
argument. If there are specific values for which one is looking for repeats, these can be specified with the vals
argument. Note that the function only checks for exactly nrep
instances, so two pairs of a specific element would be counted as 0 pairs and 1 quadruple. See the examples.
The data frame method uses apply
to apply countrep.default
to each row of the data frame.
If x
is a vector, then the value is an integer. If x
is a data frame then the value is a vector, with entries the corresponding value for the respective rows of x
G. Jay Kerns gkerns@ysu.edu.
x <- c(3,3,2,2,3,3,4,4) countrep(x) # one pair each of 2s and 4s countrep(x, nrep = 4) countrep(x, vals = 4) # one pair of 4s