How to find the number of unique values of multiple categorical columns based on one categorical column in R?

R Programming Server Side Programming Programming

To find the number of unique values of multiple categorical columns based on one categorical column, we can follow the below steps −

First of all, create a data frame
Use summarise_each function with n_distinct function to find the number of unique values based on a categorical column.

Create the data frame

Let's create a data frame as shown below −

Live Demo

x<-
sample(c("First","Second","Third","Fourth","Fifth","Sixth","Seventh","Eighth","Nineth",
"Tenth"),25,replace=TRUE)
C1<-sample(LETTERS[1:4],25,replace=TRUE)
C2<-sample(letters[1:4],25,replace=TRUE)
df<-data.frame(x,C1,C2)
df

On executing, the above script generates the below output(this output will vary on your system due to randomization) −

      x  C1 C2
1 Seventh B a
2 Third   C c
3 Nineth  A a
4 Third   D c
5 Seventh D d
6 Fourth  A c
7 Seventh B a
8 Third   D a
9 Seventh D c
10 First  A a
11 Eighth D d
12 Tenth  C b
13 Fifth  A c
14 Second A c
15 Fourth B d
16 Nineth C b
17 Fifth D a
18 First A a
19 Tenth B a
20 Nineth A b
21 Third B b
22 Tenth A a
23 Fifth A a
24 Sixth D b
25 First A c

Find number of unique values based on categorical column

Use n_distinct function and summarise_each function of dplyr package to find the number of unique values in C1 and C2 based on x −

x<-
sample(c("First","Second","Third","Fourth","Fifth","Sixth","Seventh","Eighth","Nineth",
"Tenth"),25,replace=TRUE)
C1<-sample(LETTERS[1:4],25,replace=TRUE)
C2<-sample(letters[1:4],25,replace=TRUE)
df<-data.frame(x,C1,C2)
library(dplyr)
df %>% group_by(x) %>% summarise_each(funs(n_distinct(.)))

Output

# A tibble: 10 x 3
    x     C1 C2
   <chr> <int> <int>
1  Eighth  1    1
2  Fifth   2    2
3  First   1    2
4  Fourth  2    2
5  Nineth  2    2
6  Second  1    1
7  Seventh 2    3
8  Sixth   1    1
9  Tenth   3    2
10 Third   3    3

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Published on 06-Aug-2021 12:26:29

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