, factor() expand.grid() ( )
all.possible <- expand.grid(c('a','b','c'), c('a','b','c'))
all.possible <- all.possible[all.possible[, 1] != all.possible[, 2], ]
all.possible <- unique(apply(all.possible, 1, function(x) paste(sort(x), collapse='-')))
df <- data.frame('x' = c('a', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'c'),
'y' = c('c', 'c', 'a', 'a', 'b'))
table(factor(apply(df , 1, function(x) paste(sort(x), collapse='-')), levels=all.possible))