Note that Rui used 1L and 2L to give you integers. If he had used
1 and 2 you would have gotten real numbers.
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ruipbarra...@sapo.pt
> Sent: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:57:30 +0100
> To: inf...@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [R] r syntax
>
> Hello,
>
> You should provide us with a data example.
>
> In the following, the two solutions are completely different but both of
> them do what you want. Note that the second creates a factor variable,
> whose levels are coded as integers. See R-intro.pdf in your doc
> directory, chapter 4 Ordered and unordered factors.
>
>
> x <- sample(c("Male", "Female"), 10, replace = TRUE)
>
> y1 <- ifelse(x == "Male", 1L, 2L)
> y2 <- factor(x, levels = c("Male", "Female"))
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> Em 27-04-2013 15:32, sgs sys escreveu:
>> Hi
>>
>> i want to recode Male =1 and female =2 in R
>> what is the syntax for same ?
>> thanks
>> Sameer
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