R - grouping a text vector with counts

Question

This should be very simple, but I cannot find out how to do it.

Suppose I have the vector: ('cat', 'hat', 'hat', 'mouse').

I would like to group by each word in the vector and calculate the number of times the word occured. The output should be

'cat':1

'hat':2

'mouse':1

How do you do this in R?

Answer 1

With table

table( c('cat', 'hat', 'hat', 'mouse') )