Count occurrences of value in a set of variables in R (per row)

Question

Let\'s say I have a data frame with 10 numeric variables V1-V10 (columns) and multiple rows (cases).

What I would like R to do is: For each case, give me the number

Answer 1

Try

apply(df,MARGIN=1,table)

Where df is your data.frame. This will return a list of the same length of the amount of rows in your data.frame. Each item of the list corresponds to a row of the data.frame (in the same order), and it is a table where the content is the number of occurrences and the names are the corresponding values.

For instance:

df=data.frame(V1=c(10,20,10,20),V2=c(20,30,20,30),V3=c(20,10,20,10))
#create a data.frame containing some data
df #show the data.frame
  V1 V2 V3
1 10 20 20
2 20 30 10
3 10 20 20
4 20 30 10
apply(df,MARGIN=1,table) #apply the function table on each row (MARGIN=1)
[[1]]

10 20 
 1  2 

[[2]]

10 20 30 
 1  1  1 

[[3]]

10 20 
 1  2 

[[4]]

10 20 30 
 1  1  1 

#desired result