R Count Number of Cases within Each Group – dplyr Package (Example Code)

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to count the number of rows within each group of a data frame in R.

Example Data

data(iris)                  # Iris data set
head(iris)
#   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
# 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
# 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
# 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
# 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
# 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
# 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa

Example: Counting Number of Cases within Each Group

install.packages("dplyr")     # Install & load dplyr
library("dplyr")
iris %>%                    # Identify number of rows rows by group
  group_by(Species) %>% 
  summarise(n = n())
       # # A tibble: 3 x 2
#   Species        n
#   <fct>      <int>
# 1 setosa        50
# 2 versicolor    50
# 3 virginica     50

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