How do I get a contingency table?

Question

I am trying to create a contingency table from a particular type of data. This would be doable with loops etc... but because my final table would contain more than 10E5 cell

Answer 1

I'd like to point out that we can get the same results Andrie posted without using the function with:

R Base Package

# 3 options
table(warpbreaks[, 2:3])
table(warpbreaks[, c("wool", "tension")])
table(warpbreaks$wool, warpbreaks$tension, dnn = c("wool", "tension"))

    tension
wool L M H
   A 9 9 9
   B 9 9 9

Package gmodels:

library(gmodels)
# 2 options    
CrossTable(warpbreaks$wool, warpbreaks$tension)
CrossTable(warpbreaks$wool, warpbreaks$tension, dnn = c("Wool", "Tension"))


   Cell Contents
|-------------------------|
|                       N |
| Chi-square contribution |
|           N / Row Total |
|           N / Col Total |
|         N / Table Total |
|-------------------------|


Total Observations in Table:  54 


                | warpbreaks$tension 
warpbreaks$wool |         L |         M |         H | Row Total | 
----------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
              A |         9 |         9 |         9 |        27 | 
                |     0.000 |     0.000 |     0.000 |           | 
                |     0.333 |     0.333 |     0.333 |     0.500 | 
                |     0.500 |     0.500 |     0.500 |           | 
                |     0.167 |     0.167 |     0.167 |           | 
----------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
              B |         9 |         9 |         9 |        27 | 
                |     0.000 |     0.000 |     0.000 |           | 
                |     0.333 |     0.333 |     0.333 |     0.500 | 
                |     0.500 |     0.500 |     0.500 |           | 
                |     0.167 |     0.167 |     0.167 |           | 
----------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
   Column Total |        18 |        18 |        18 |        54 | 
                |     0.333 |     0.333 |     0.333 |           | 
----------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|