Getting R Frequency counts for all possible answers

Question

I\'ve started with R and I\'m still finding my way with syntax. I\'m looking to get the frequencies for a scaled variable which has values of 0 through 10 and NA.

Answer 1

Here's a base R solution built around table(), match(), and replace():

freq <- table(df$R,useNA='ifany');
freq;
##
##    5    7    9 <NA>
##    2    1    1    1
R <- c(0:10,NA);
df2 <- data.frame(R=R,freq=freq[match(R,as.integer(names(freq)))]);
df2$freq[is.na(df2$freq)] <- 0;
df2;
##     R freq
## 1   0    0
## 2   1    0
## 3   2    0
## 4   3    0
## 5   4    0
## 6   5    2
## 7   6    0
## 8   7    1
## 9   8    0
## 10  9    1
## 11 10    0
## 12 NA    1

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Edit: Frank has a better answer, here's how you can use table() on a factor to get the required output:

setNames(nm=c('R','freq'),data.frame(table(factor(df$R,levels=RAnswers,exclude=NULL))));
##       R freq
## 1     0    0
## 2     1    0
## 3     2    0
## 4     3    0
## 5     4    0
## 6     5    2
## 7     6    0
## 8     7    1
## 9     8    0
## 10    9    1
## 11   10    0
## 12 <NA>    1

Answer 2

This kind of tasks is easily done with package dplyr. For keeping the non-used values of R, you have to define R as factor and use tidyr's complete-function

library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
df %>%
    mutate(R = factor(R, levels=1:10)) %>%
    group_by(R) %>%
    summarise(freq=n()) %>%
    complete(R, fill=list(freq=0))