Try recode from Deducer package. Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from !DEA
-----Original Message----- From: B Jessop <deel...@hotmail.com> Sender: r-help-bounces@r-project.orgDate: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:36:07 To: <r-help@r-project.org> Subject: [R] FW: Renaming levels of a factor in a dataframe Tyler, Tried your solution: levels (Data1$Site <- list(Fw = c("AB"), Est = c("DE"))) but still got a NULL response to str(Data1) and an alternating list of Fw, Est, Fw, Est under Site when looked at in the Data editor in R console. The use of the "levels" function would seem to be appropriate but tricky to use. Any other ideas would be welcome. Regards, BJ ________________________________ > From: tyler_rin...@hotmail.com > To: deel...@hotmail.com; r-help@r-project.org > Subject: RE: [R] Renaming levels of a factor in a dataframe > Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:18:12 -0400 > > Here's an example of relevel used to relevel and combine groups.... > > InsectSprays2<-InsectSprays > levels(InsectSprays2$spray) > levels(InsectSprays2$spray)<-list(new1=c("A","C"),YEPS=c("B","D","E"),LASTLY="F") > > levels(InsectSprays2$spray) > InsectSprays2 > > So for you try... > levels (Data1$Site) <- list(Fw =c( "AB"), Est = c("DE")) > > > From: deel...@hotmail.com > > To: r-help@r-project.org > > Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:56:25 -0300 > > Subject: [R] Renaming levels of a factor in a dataframe > > > > > > > > Dear Helplist: > > > > > > > > I am trying, unsuccessfully, to rename levels of a factor in a > dataframe. The dataframe consists of two factor variables and one > numeric variable as follows: > > > > Factor Site has 2 levels AB and DE, factor Fish has 30 levels, 15 > associated with each Site e.g. 1-1, 1-2,.....2-1, 2-2.... I am trying > to rename the levels of factor Site from AB to Fw and DE to Est while > keeping them as factors. The following 2 approaches do not work, each > giving a NULL response and creating a character string. > > > > > > > > levels (Data1$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. > > ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.