[R] Getting multiple tables when using table(dataframe) to tabulate data

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this:

xtabs(count ~., data)

Also look at ?ftable, ?prop.table, ?reshape and the reshape package.

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:22 PM, obradoa <aobradovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am having hard time tabulating data in a dataframe, and getting a single
> "table" for an answer. I am trying to tabulate all "counts" for given
> "status" on a given date.
>
>
> I have a data frame such as:
>
>
>     delta_ts       status         count
> 1  2008-02-27   CLOSED     3
> 2  2008-02-27      NEW    56
> 3  2008-02-27 RESOLVED     5
> 4  2008-02-21 ASSIGNED     1
> 5  2008-02-21 ASSIGNED     1
> 6  2008-02-21      NEW     2
> 7  2008-02-21 RESOLVED     0
> 8  2008-02-22 ASSIGNED     0
> 9  2008-02-22   CLOSED     0
> 10 2008-02-22      NEW     6
> 11 2008-02-22 RESOLVED     1
> 12 2008-02-23 ASSIGNED     2
> 13 2008-02-23   CLOSED     1
> 14 2008-02-23      NEW    12
> 15 2008-02-23 RESOLVED     0
> 16 2008-02-24 ASSIGNED     7
> 17 2008-02-24   CLOSED     4
> 18 2008-02-24      NEW    16
> 19 2008-02-24 RESOLVED     2
> 20 2008-02-25 ASSIGNED     2
> 21 2008-02-25   CLOSED     6
> 22 2008-02-25      NEW    22
> 23 2008-02-25 RESOLVED     5
> 24 2008-02-26 ASSIGNED     6
> 25 2008-02-26   CLOSED     8
> 26 2008-02-26      NEW    38
> 27 2008-02-26 RESOLVED     3
> 28 2008-02-28   CLOSED     3
> 29 2008-02-28      NEW    56
> 30 2008-02-28 RESOLVED     5
>
>
> When I do "table" on that frame I get a long list that looks like this:
>
>
> > table(data)
> , , count = 0
>
>            status
> delta_ts     ASSIGNED CLOSED NEW RESOLVED
>  2008-02-21        0      0   0        1
>  2008-02-22        1      1   0        0
>  2008-02-23        0      0   0        1
>  2008-02-24        0      0   0        0
>  2008-02-25        0      0   0        0
>  2008-02-26        0      0   0        0
>  2008-02-27        0      0   0        0
>  2008-02-28        0      0   0        0
>
>
> and so on all the way up to
>
> , , count = 56
>
>            status
> delta_ts     ASSIGNED CLOSED NEW RESOLVED
>  2008-02-21        0      0   0        0
>  2008-02-22        0      0   0        0
>  2008-02-23        0      0   0        0
>  2008-02-24        0      0   0        0
>  2008-02-25        0      0   0        0
>  2008-02-26        0      0   0        0
>  2008-02-27        0      0   1        0
>  2008-02-28        0      0   1        0
>
>
>
> What I actually want is for my counts to be properly tabulated in one single
> table that looks something like this.
>
>
> delta_ts     ASSIGNED CLOSED NEW RESOLVED
>  2008-02-21        2      5   9        15
>
> and so on...
>
>
> Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
>
> Thanks!
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