Summary  
This chapter demonstrates how to count the occurrences of each level in a categorical variable by using a built-in summary function.

General domain of usage  
Data analysis

You can count how many times each category appears in a factor using the `summary()` function.

curr_f <- factor(c('USD', 'EUR', 'AUD', 'NOK', 
                   'CHF', 'EUR', 'AUD', 'EUR'))

# Count the occurrences of each level
summary(curr_f)

The output lists each level with the number of times it occurs. This makes it easy to see the distribution of categories in your data.

The order in which results appear corresponds to the order of levels in the factor.

Note

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Counting Factor Values

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Counting Factor Values

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