Finding percentage in a sub-group using group_by and summarise

I am new to dplyr and trying to do the following transformation without any luck. I've searched across the internet and I have found examples to do the same in ddply but I'd like to use dplyr.

I have the following data:

   month   type  count
1  Feb-14  bbb   341
2  Feb-14  ccc   527
3  Feb-14  aaa  2674
4  Mar-14  bbb   811
5  Mar-14  ccc  1045
6  Mar-14  aaa  4417
7  Apr-14  bbb  1178
8  Apr-14  ccc  1192
9  Apr-14  aaa  4793
10 May-14  bbb   916
..    ...  ...   ...

I want to use dplyr to calculate the percentage of each type (aaa, bbb, ccc) at a month level i.e.

   month   type  count  per
1  Feb-14  bbb   341    9.6%
2  Feb-14  ccc   527    14.87%
3  Feb-14  aaa  2674    ..
..    ...  ...   ...

I've tried

data %>%
  group_by(month, type) %>%
  summarise(count / sum(count))

This gives a 1 as each value. How do I make the sum(count) sum across all the types in the month?

Try

library(dplyr)
data %>%
    group_by(month) %>%
    mutate(countT= sum(count)) %>%
    group_by(type, add=TRUE) %>%
    mutate(per=paste0(round(100*count/countT,2),'%'))

Or make it more simpler without creating additional columns

data %>%
    group_by(month) %>%
    mutate(per =  100 *count/sum(count)) %>% 
    ungroup

We could also use left_join after summarising the sum(count) by 'month'

Or an option using data.table.

 library(data.table)
 setkey(setDT(data), month)[data[, list(count=sum(count)), month], 
               per:= paste0(round(100*count/i.count,2), '%')][]

And with a bit less code:

df <- data.frame(month=c("Feb-14", "Feb-14", "Feb-14", "Mar-14", "Mar-14", "Mar-14", "Apr-14", "Apr-14", "Apr-14", "May-14"),
             type=c("bbb", "ccc", "aaa", "bbb", "ccc", "aaa", "bbb", "ccc", "aaa", "bbb"),
             count=c(341, 527, 2674, 811, 1045, 4417, 1178, 1192, 4793, 916))


library(dplyr)

df %>% group_by(month) %>% 
       mutate(per=paste0(round(count/sum(count)*100, 2), "%")) %>% 
       ungroup

Since you want to "leave" your data frame untouched you shouldn't use summarise, mutate will suffice.

We can use prop.table to get the proportions within each group.

This can be written in dplyr :

library(dplyr)
df %>% group_by(month) %>% mutate(per= prop.table(count) * 100)

#  month  type  count    per
#   <chr>  <chr> <dbl>  <dbl>
# 1 Feb-14 bbb     341   9.63
# 2 Feb-14 ccc     527  14.9 
# 3 Feb-14 aaa    2674  75.5 
# 4 Mar-14 bbb     811  12.9 
# 5 Mar-14 ccc    1045  16.7 
# 6 Mar-14 aaa    4417  70.4 
# 7 Apr-14 bbb    1178  16.4 
# 8 Apr-14 ccc    1192  16.6 
# 9 Apr-14 aaa    4793  66.9 
#10 May-14 bbb     916 100   

Base R :

df$per <- with(df, ave(count, month, FUN = prop.table) * 100)

and data.table :

library(data.table)
setDT(df)[, per := prop.table(count) * 100, month]