Hi, I think droplevels(df) is what you are looking for.
Best wishes, Ulrik On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 at 17:33 hoda rahmati via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > Hi all,I have the following main data frame:(mydata) $ TE : num 40 > 40 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 40 ... $ TR : num 49 49 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 > 49 ... $ COUNTRY : Factor w/ 27 levels "","AU","BA","BE",..: 8 8 8 8 > 8 ...among the COUNTRY I just need US and AU,first I get a subset to > contain just these two countries: > submydata=subset(mydata,COUNTRY%in%c("US","AU")) > factor(submydata$COUNTRY) but after this when I get str of mydata again I > have the same data frame with no changes in COUNTRY, however I want mydata > to be like: > $ TE : num 40 40 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 40 ... $ TR : num 49 > 49 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 49 ... $ COUNTRY : Factor w/ 2 levels > "","AU","US",..: 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8Thanks for any help > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.