How to count the number of observations in R like Stata command count
aaa<- data.frame(sex=c(1,1,2,2,1,1), group1=c(1,2,1,2,2,2),group2=c("A","B","A","B","A","B"))
stata command:
count if sex==1 & group1==2
count if sex==1 & group2=="A"
count counts the number of observations that satisfy the specified conditions. If no conditions are specified, count displays the number of observations in the data.
How to count in R? Thank you.
Answer
The with function will let you use shorthand column references and sum will count TRUE results from the expression(s).
sum(with(aaa, sex==1 & group1==2))
## [1] 3
sum(with(aaa, sex==1 & group2=="A"))
## [1] 2
As @mnel pointed out, you can also do:
nrow(aaa[aaa$sex==1 & aaa$group1==2,])
## [1] 3
nrow(aaa[aaa$sex==1 & aaa$group2=="A",])
## [1] 2
The benefit of that is that you can do:
nrow(aaa)
## [1] 6
And, the behaviour matches Stata's count almost exactly (syntax notwithstanding).