Compute a frequency table on CSV data.
The resulting frequency table will look like this:
field - Name of the column
value - Some distinct value of the column
count - Number of rows containing this value
By default, there is a row for the N most frequent values for each field in the
data. The number of values can be tweaked with --limit and --threshold flags
respectively.
Since this computes an exact frequency table, memory proportional to the
cardinality of each selected column is required.
To compute custom aggregations per group, beyond just counting, please be sure to
check the `xan groupby` command instead.
Usage:
xan frequency [options] [<input>]
xan freq [options] [<input>]
frequency options:
-s, --select <arg> Select a subset of columns to compute frequencies
for. See 'xan select --help' for the format
details. This is provided here because piping 'xan
select' into 'xan frequency' will disable the use
of indexing.
--sep <char> Split the cell into multiple values to count using the
provided separator.
-g, --groupby <cols> If given, will compute frequency tables per group
as defined by the given columns.
-l, --limit <arg> Limit the frequency table to the N most common
items. Set to <=0 to disable a limit. It is combined
with -t/--threshold.
[default: 10]
-t, --threshold <arg> If set, won't return items having a count less than
this given threshold. It is combined with -l/--limit.
-N, --no-extra Don't include empty cells & remaining counts.
-p, --parallel Allow sorting to be done in parallel. This is only
useful with -l/--limit set to 0, i.e. no limit.
Common options:
-h, --help Display this message
-o, --output <file> Write output to <file> instead of stdout.
-n, --no-headers When set, the first row will NOT be included
in the frequency table. Additionally, the 'field'
column will be 1-based indices instead of header
names.
-d, --delimiter <arg> The field delimiter for reading CSV data.
Must be a single character.