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How to find the number of occurrences of unique and repeated characters in a string vector in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 657 Views

To find the number of occurrences of unique characters in a string vector, we can use table function with the combination of rle and strsplit. For example, if we have a string vector x that contains some unique and repeated values then it can be created by using the below command −table(rle(strsplit(x, "")[[1]]))Example 1> x1 x1Output[1] "ABDAJFSDAVCJDDAJFKDSAFKDSJKCJCCJCJDKD"Example> table(rle(strsplit(x1, "")[[1]]))Outputvalues lengths A B C D F J K S V 1 5 1 3 6 3 7 4 3 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0It means A of length 1 occurred 5 times and A of ...

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How to create a random sample of months in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 462 Views

Random samples can be created by using sample function and months in a year can be generated with the help of month.name function. Therefore, if we want to create a random sample of months then month.name can be used with sample function as sample(month.name) and if the size of the sample is larger than 12 then replace=TRUE argument should be used.Examplesx1

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How to convert 12-hour time scale to 24-hour time in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 2K+ Views

Dealing with time data is not an easy task, it is sometimes difficult even in built-in analytical softwares, thus it won’t be easy in R as well. Mostly, we record time on a 12-hour time scale but in some situations, we need 24-hour time scale. Therefore, if we want to convert 12-hour time scale to 24-hour time scale then format function can be used with as.POSIXct. Look at the below examples, to understand it better.Example1Time1

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How to find the position of minimum value in a vector that contains integers as strings in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 229 Views

If integer vector is read as strings and we want to find the position of the minimum value in that vector then we need to use as.numeric along with the vector to read it as a numeric vector then use which function for finding the position of the minimum value. For example, if we have a vector x that contains first ten integers as strings then to find the position of the minimum we can use which(as.numeric(x)==min(as.numeric(x))).Example1x1

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How to find minimum value in a numerical vector which is written as a character vector in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 349 Views

To find the minimum value of a numeric vector we can directly use min function but if the values are read with double-inverted commas then min function does not work. In this case, we will have to use as.numeric with the vector name so that it can be converted to numeric form before finding the minimum value. For example, if we have a character vector that contains 1, 2, 3, and 4 then the minimum can be found as min(as.numeric(x)).Example1x1

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How to create a vector with lowercase as well as uppercase letters in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 936 Views

To create a vector with lowercase we can use the word letters and for uppercase the word LETTERS is used in R. If we want to create a vector with both type of letters then both of these words can be combined using c function and if want to create a vector with randomly sampled values of lowercase and uppercase letters then sample function can be used.Examples> x1 x1Output[1] "A" "B" "C" "D" "a" "b" "c" "d"Example> x2 x2Output[1] "A" "B" "C" "D" "E" "F" "G" "H" "I" "J" "K" "L" "M" "N" "O" "P" "Q" "R" "S" [20] "T" ...

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How to replace numbers with ordinal strings for a survey in an R vector?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 2K+ Views

The easiest way to replace numbers with ordinal strings is using ifelse function. The ifelse function in R works as ifelse(test_expression, x, y). Here, test_expression must be a logical vector or an object that can be coerced to logical). The return value is a vector with the same length as test_expression.Example1> x1 x1Output[1] 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 [38] 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 ...

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How to extract the names of vector values from a named vector in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 5K+ Views

How to extract the names of vector values from a named vector in R?The names of vector values are created by using name function and the names can be extracted by using the same function. For example, if we have a vector called x that contains five values(1 to 5) and their names are defined as first, second, third, fourth and fifth then the names of values in x can be extracted by using names(x)[x==1].Example1> x1 names(x1) x1Outputone two three four 1 2 3 4Example> names(x1)[x1==1]Output[1] "one"Example> names(x1)[x1==2]Output[1] "two" Example> names(x1)[x1==3]Output[1] "three"Example> names(x1)[x1==4]Output[1] "four" Example2> x2 x2Output [1] 3 5 ...

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How to find the mean of list elements without unlisting them in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 390 Views

Most of the times, unlisting is used to find the mean of list elements but we can also use double-square brackets for the same purpose. The double-square brackets are basically used to access the values in the elements of the list, thus mean function works with those values directly. Look at the below example to understand how it works.ExampleConsider the below list:> x xOutput[1] 3 3 3 5 3 1 4 7 5 4 5 9 9 7 4 3 6 2 4 3 3 4 7 4 4 [26] 4 5 3 4 4 3 5 7 2 3 ...

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How to create frequency table of a string vector in R?

Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Nizamuddin Siddiqui
Updated on 11-Mar-2026 1K+ Views

To create a frequency table of a string vector, we just need to use table function. For example, if we have a vector x that contains randomly sampled 100 values of first five English alphabets then the table of vector x can be created by using table(x). This will generate a table along with the name of the vector.Example1> x1 x1Output[1] "d" "d" "a" "c" "a" "a" "c" "a" "d" "c" "a" "d" "d" "b" "c" "a" "b" "c" "d" [20] "b"Example> table(x1)Outputx1 a b c d 6 3 5 6Example2> x2 x2Output[1] "w" "j" "p" "y" "r" "m" "y" ...

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