[R] reshaping result of by()

[Sebastian Luque]

Hello,

I'm trying to build a frequency table for a vector, broken down by the
combination of factors.  For further analyses, I need to have the result
arranged in a new data frame, with the upper limit of the histogram's
breaks, the per bin count, and the factors identifying each record.  My
problem is including the latter:

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toydf <- expand.grid(sample(0:50, 50, TRUE), c("A", "B"),
                     c("pop1", "pop2", "pop3", "pop4", "pop5"))

"getFreq" <- function(x, bks)
{
  fhist <- hist(x, breaks = bks, plot = FALSE,
                include.lowest = TRUE)
  matrix(c(fhist$breaks[-1], fhist$counts),
           nrow = length(fhist$breaks[-1]), ncol = 2)
}

freqs <- by(toydf[[1]], list(toydf[[2]], toydf[[3]]), getFreq, bks = 0:50)

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so I'd need to do some manipulation with dimnames(freqs), which contains
the levels of the factors supplied to 'getFreq', to assign the factors to
each element of the matrix value of 'by'.  I could then do:

do.call(rbind, freqs)

to obtain the final data frame, which would then have all the necessary
information.

Any help with manipulation of the dimnames(freqs) (or something even
better) would be very appreciated!

Cheers,

-- 
Sebastian P. Luque