On Aug 13, 2010, at 1:03 PM, TGS wrote:

# how would I code in R to look at the letter of the alphabet
# in the second column and create a indicator column for the
# corresponding letter?

data(InsectSprays)
InsectSprays$spray

It's already what most people mean when they say "indicator column", i.e., a factor variable (and not a character vector) .... so, what do _you_ mean?



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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

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