Create a column with a count of occurrences in R [duplicate]

Answer 1

In base R I would suggest ave:

within(mydf, {
    count = ave(Product, Customer, FUN = function(x) length(unique(x)))
})
##   Customer   Product count
## 1        1 Chocolate     3
## 2        1     Candy     3
## 3        1      Soda     3
## 4        2 Chocolate     1
## 5        2 Chocolate     1
## 6        2 Chocolate     1
## 7        3   Insulin     2
## 8        3     Candy     2

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You could also try the "data.table" package:

library(data.table)
as.data.table(mydf)[, count := length(unique(Product)), by = Customer][]
##    Customer   Product count
## 1:        1 Chocolate     3
## 2:        1     Candy     3
## 3:        1      Soda     3
## 4:        2 Chocolate     1
## 5:        2 Chocolate     1
## 6:        2 Chocolate     1
## 7:        3   Insulin     2
## 8:        3     Candy     2