Dear Dimitris,
thanks for your quick reply. I've tried the solutions proposed in 7.10 How
do I convert factors to numeric?
as.numeric(as.character(pp))
and
as.numeric(levels(pp))[as.integer(pp)]
However, whatever I do, I get "Warning message: NAs introduced by coercion"
and the output is a vector of NA.
Any ideas?
f.
On 23 January 2013 10:39, D. Rizopoulos <d.rizopou...@erasmusmc.nl> wrote:
> Check R FAQ 7.10: How do I convert factors to numeric?
>
>
> I hope it helps.
>
> Best,
> Dimitris
>
>
> On 1/23/2013 10:33 AM, Francesco Sarracino wrote:
> > Dear R listers,
> >
> > I am trying to compute the mean of a dummy variable that is encoded as a
> > factor. However, even though the levels of my factor are 0 - 1, when I
> > compute the mean (after coercing the factor to be
> > numeric), R changes 0 into 1 and 1 into yes, thus altering my expected
> > result.
> >
> > Please, consider the following working example:
> > pp <- rep(0:1, 10)
> > pp <- factor(pp, levels=(0:1), labels=c("no","yes"))
> > mean(pp) #this won't work because the argument is not numeric or logical
> > mean(as.integer(pp)) # this computes the average, but not on the range
> 0-1,
> > but 1-2. Indeed, the result is 1.5 and not 0.5 as expected.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> > Thanks in advance for your kind support,
> > f.
> >
> >
>
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>
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