buggy_count: A buggy version of plyr's count function

In learningr: Data and Functions to Accompany the Book "Learning R"

Description

An old version of the plyr package's count function that fails when you pass it a factor input.

Usage

  buggy_count(df, vars = NULL, wt_var = NULL)

Arguments

df	A data frame or an atomic input.
vars	Variables in df to count unique values of
wt_var	Optional variable to weight by. See count.

Value

A data frame with label and freq columns.

Note

In case the “buggy” part of the name didn't give it away, this is not suitable for real world usage!

See Also

count and table

Examples

## Not run: 
buggy_count(factor()) #oops!

## End(Not run)

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