[r] Extend contigency table with proportions (percentages)

I have a contingency table of counts, and I want to extend it with corresponding proportions of each group.

Some sample data (tips data set from ggplot2 package):

library(ggplot2)

head(tips, 3)
#   total_bill tip    sex smoker day   time size
# 1         17 1.0 Female     No Sun Dinner    2
# 2         10 1.7   Male     No Sun Dinner    3
# 3         21 3.5   Male     No Sun Dinner    3

First, use table to count smoker vs non-smoker, and nrow to count total number of subjects:

table(tips$smoker)
#  No Yes 
# 151  93 

nrow(tips)
# [1] 244

Then, I want to calculate percentage of smokers vs. non smokers. Something like this (ugly code):

# percentage of smokers
options(digits = 2)

transform(as.data.frame(table(tips$smoker)), percentage_column = Freq / nrow(tips) * 100)
#   Var1 Freq percentage_column
# 1   No  151                62
# 2  Yes   93                38

Is there a better way to do this?

(even better it would be to do this on a set of columns (which I enumerate) and have output somewhat nicely formatted) (e.g., smoker, day, and time)

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The answer is


If it's conciseness you're after, you might like:

prop.table(table(tips$smoker))

and then scale by 100 and round if you like. Or more like your exact output:

tbl <- table(tips$smoker)
cbind(tbl,prop.table(tbl))

If you wanted to do this for multiple columns, there are lots of different directions you could go depending on what your tastes tell you is clean looking output, but here's one option:

tblFun <- function(x){
    tbl <- table(x)
    res <- cbind(tbl,round(prop.table(tbl)*100,2))
    colnames(res) <- c('Count','Percentage')
    res
}

do.call(rbind,lapply(tips[3:6],tblFun))
       Count Percentage
Female    87      35.66
Male     157      64.34
No       151      61.89
Yes       93      38.11
Fri       19       7.79
Sat       87      35.66
Sun       76      31.15
Thur      62      25.41
Dinner   176      72.13
Lunch     68      27.87

If you don't like stack the different tables on top of each other, you can ditch the do.call and leave them in a list.


I am not 100% certain, but I think this does what you want using prop.table. See mostly the last 3 lines. The rest of the code is just creating fake data.

set.seed(1234)

total_bill <- rnorm(50, 25, 3)
tip <- 0.15 * total_bill + rnorm(50, 0, 1)
sex <- rbinom(50, 1, 0.5)
smoker <- rbinom(50, 1, 0.3)
day <- ceiling(runif(50, 0,7))
time <- ceiling(runif(50, 0,3))
size <- 1 + rpois(50, 2)
my.data <- as.data.frame(cbind(total_bill, tip, sex, smoker, day, time, size))
my.data

my.table <- table(my.data$smoker)

my.prop <- prop.table(my.table)

cbind(my.table, my.prop)

Here is another example using the lapply and table functions in base R.

freqList = lapply(select_if(tips, is.factor), 
              function(x) {
                  df = data.frame(table(x))

                  df = data.frame(fct = df[, 1], 
                                  n = sapply(df[, 2], function(y) {
                                      round(y / nrow(dat), 2)
                                    }
                                )
                            )
                  return(df) 
                    }
                )

Use print(freqList) to see the proportion tables (percent of frequencies) for each column/feature/variable (depending on your tradecraft) that is labeled as a factor.


Your code doesn't seem so ugly to me...
however, an alternative (not much better) could be e.g. :

df <- data.frame(table(yn))
colnames(df) <- c('Smoker','Freq')
df$Perc <- df$Freq / sum(df$Freq) * 100

------------------
  Smoker Freq Perc
1     No   19 47.5
2    Yes   21 52.5

Here's a tidyverse version:

library(tidyverse)
data(diamonds)

(as.data.frame(table(diamonds$cut)) %>% rename(Count=1,Freq=2) %>% mutate(Perc=100*Freq/sum(Freq)))

Or if you want a handy function:

getPercentages <- function(df, colName) {
  df.cnt <- df %>% select({{colName}}) %>% 
    table() %>%
    as.data.frame() %>% 
    rename({{colName}} :=1, Freq=2) %>% 
    mutate(Perc=100*Freq/sum(Freq))
}

Now you can do:

diamonds %>% getPercentages(cut)

or this:

df=diamonds %>% group_by(cut) %>% group_modify(~.x %>% getPercentages(clarity))
ggplot(df,aes(x=clarity,y=Perc))+geom_col()+facet_wrap(~cut)

I made this for when doing aggregate functions and similar

per.fun <- function(x) {
    if(length(x)>1){
        denom <- length(x);
        num <- sum(x);
        percentage <- num/denom;
        percentage*100
        }
        else NA
    }

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