[R] what is the "right" way to obtain frequencies of vector values?

[Vlad Skvortsov]

Hi!

Let's say I have vector x with positive integer values ranging from 1 to 
N. I need to obtain another vector y of size N where y[i] contains the 
number of times value i occurs in x. It is in a sense similar to hist() 
(with appropriate number of breaks) or table() with numeric "factors".

Currenlty I use a custom function for that, but thought maybe there is a 
more "direct" way in R.

Thanks!

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Vlad Skvortsov, vss at 73rus.com, http://vss.73rus.com