Count with table() and exclude 0's

Question

I try to count triplets; for this I use three vectors that are packed in a dataframe:

X=c(4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3)              
Y=c(1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,3,4,2,2,2,2,3,4,1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4)
Z=c(4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,6,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,7,2,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3)


Count_Frame=data.frame(matrix(NA, nrow=(length(X)), ncol=3))

Count_Frame[1]=X
Count_Frame[2]=Y
Count_Frame[3]=Z

Counts=data.frame(table(Count_Frame))

There is the following problem: if I increase the value range in the vectors or use even more vectors the "Counts" dataframe quickly approaches its size limit due to the many 0-counts. Is there a way to exclude the 0-counts while generating "Counts"?

Answer 1

We can use data.table. Convert the 'data.frame' to 'data.table' (setDT(Count_Frame)), grouped by all the columns (.(X, Y, Z)), we get the number or rows (.N).

library(data.table)
setDT(Count_Frame)[,.N ,.(X, Y, Z)]
#    X Y Z N
# 1: 4 1 4 7
# 2: 4 1 5 1
# 3: 1 1 6 1
# 4: 1 1 1 3
# 5: 1 2 1 2
# 6: 1 3 1 1
# 7: 1 4 1 1
# 8: 2 2 2 4
# 9: 2 3 7 1
#10: 2 4 2 1
#11: 3 1 3 2
#12: 3 2 3 2
#13: 3 3 3 2
#14: 3 4 3 2

Instead of naming all the columns, we can use names(Count_Frame) as well (if there are many columns)

setDT(Count_Frame)[,.N , names(Count_Frame)]