Hello, I have a particular measurement that can take integer values between 0 and 5. I have multiple measurements for about 50 samples and I working on a simulation where a random measurement is taken for each sample. This gives me a 50x10000 table (if there were 10000 runs). For each run I use table() to give me the freq of each score. I would like to join the frequencies of each run together so I can find the average frequency for each score etc. The problem is that if there is none of that particular score then table() does no produce a value e.g. suppose there were no 0 measurements the you would get: 1 2 3 4 5 18 81 55 34 12 rather than 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 18 81 55 34 12 so a simple cbind() would not work. Does anyone know a way to either get table to fill in empty values or to do a ragged join or the like. Many thanks -- ************************************************************** Daniel Brewer, Ph.D. Institute of Cancer Research Email: daniel.brewer at icr.ac.uk ************************************************************** The Institute of Cancer Research: Royal Cancer Hospital, a charitable Company Limited by Guarantee, Registered in England under Company No. 534147 with its Registered Office at 123 Old Brompton Road, London SW7 3RP. This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the a...{{dropped:2}}

Hi Daniel, If you turn your integers into factors then R will make the correct table. > x<-c(1,1,2,3,3,4,4,4,5) > x<-factor(x,levels=0:5) > table(x) x 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 2 1 2 3 1 > Cheers, Alex Alex C. Lam PhD student Dept. of Genetics and Genomics Roslin Institute, Edinburgh EH25 9PS UK ________________________________ From: bioconductor-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch on behalf of Daniel Brewer Sent: Tue 12/4/2007 12:20 PM To: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [BioC] Expanding table to all possible factors Hello, I have a particular measurement that can take integer values between 0 and 5. I have multiple measurements for about 50 samples and I working on a simulation where a random measurement is taken for each sample. This gives me a 50x10000 table (if there were 10000 runs). For each run I use table() to give me the freq of each score. I would like to join the frequencies of each run together so I can find the average frequency for each score etc. The problem is that if there is none of that particular score then table() does no produce a value e.g. suppose there were no 0 measurements the you would get: 1 2 3 4 5 18 81 55 34 12 rather than 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 18 81 55 34 12 so a simple cbind() would not work. Does anyone know a way to either get table to fill in empty values or to do a ragged join or the like. Many thanks -- ************************************************************** Daniel Brewer, Ph.D. Institute of Cancer Research Email: daniel.brewer at icr.ac.uk ************************************************************** The Institute of Cancer Research: Royal Cancer Hospital, a charitable Company Limited by Guarantee, Registered in England under Company No. 534147 with its Registered Office at 123 Old Brompton Road, London SW7 3RP. This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the a...{{dropped:10}}