Create Relative Frequency Table Using dplyr in R

The relative frequency is the proportion of something out of total. For example, if we have 5 bananas, 6 guava, 10 pomegranates then the relative frequency of banana would be 5 divided by the total sum of 5, 6, and 10 that is 21 hence it can be also called proportional frequency.

Example1

 Live Demo

Consider the below data frame −

set.seed(21)
x<−sample(LETTERS[1:4],20,replace=TRUE)
Ratings<−sample(1:50,20)
df1<−data.frame(x,Ratings)
df1

Output

x Ratings
1 C 44
2 A 29
3 C 14
4 A 10
5 B 46
6 C 1
7 D 47
8 A 8
9 C 23
10 C 7
11 D 50
12 B 31
13 B 34
14 B 3
15 D 48
16 B 33
17 C 45
18 B 9
19 B 40
20 C 21

Loading dplyr package −

library(dplyr)

Finding the table of relative frequencies of values in x −

df1%>%group_by(x)%>%summarise(n=n())%>%mutate(freq=n/sum(n))
`summarise()` ungrouping output (override with `.groups` argument)
# A tibble: 4 x 3

Output

x n freq
<chr> <int> <dbl>
1 A 3 0.15
2 B 7 0.35
3 C 7 0.35
4 D 3 0.15
Warning message:
`...` is not empty.
We detected these problematic arguments:
* `needs_dots`
These dots only exist to allow future extensions and should be empty.
Did you misspecify an argument?

Note − Do not worry about this warning message because our problem is correctly solved and the warning has no relation with that.

Example2

 Live Demo

y<−sample(c("Male","Female"),20,replace=TRUE)
Salary<−sample(20000:50000,20)
df2<−data.frame(y,Salary)
df2

Output

   y Salary
1 Female 40907
2 Female 47697
3 Male 49419
4 Female 23818
5 Male 21585
6 Male 22276
7 Female 21856
8 Male 22092
9 Male 27892
10 Female 47655
11 Male 34933
12 Female 48027
13 Female 48179
14 Male 21460
15 Male 24233
16 Female 43762
17 Female 22369
18 Female 47206
19 Male 34972
20 Female 30222

Finding the relative frequencies of genders in y −

df2%>%group_by(y)%>%summarise(n=n())%>%mutate(freq=n/sum(n))
`summarise()` ungrouping output (override with `.groups` argument)
# A tibble: 2 x 3

Output

y n freq
<chr> <int> <dbl>
1 Female 11 0.55
2 Male 9 0.45
Warning message:
`...` is not empty.
We detected these problematic arguments:
* `needs_dots`
These dots only exist to allow future extensions and should be empty.
Did you misspecify an argument?