Dear Helplist:
I am trying, unsuccessfully, to rename levels of a factor in a dataframe. The
dataframe consists of two factor variables and one numeric variable as follows:
Factor Site has 2 levels AB and DE, factor Fish has 30 levels, 15 associated
with each Site e.g. 1-1, 1-2,.....2-1, 2-2.... I am trying to rename the
levels of factor Site from AB to Fw and DE to Est while keeping them as
factors. The following 2 approaches do not work, each giving a NULL response
and creating a character string.
levels (Data1$Site <- c("Fw", "Est")) This simply gives an alternating list of
Fw, Est, Fw, Est... not the desired 15 concurrent rows of Fw followed by 15 of
Est.
#levels (Data1$Site <- list(Fw = "AB", Est = "DE")) This gives the same result.
I have tried other approaches to no avail. It seems a simple problem but has
not been so.
Any suggestions for solving this problem would be much appreciated.
Regards,
BJ
______________________________________________
R-help@r-project.org mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
