Hi, everyone, I want to use a new value to replace a column that is a factor. However this column is replaced by <NA> , which is not what I want. I know this is because the new value is not in the levels of that column, but I don't know how to fix it. Can someone help me to figure this out?
The following is what I did thanks jlm > head(FDLFDPdata0000[FDLFDPdata0000$ID==69912008,]) ID Target Actual Date Time tempcalved2 tempLact2 DIM 69912008 50 0.0 2008-01-16 14:42:00 2009-04-14 1 -454 69912008 50 51.8 2008-01-17 05:23:00 2009-04-14 1 -453 69912008 50 0.0 2008-01-17 14:01:00 2009-04-14 1 -453 69912008 50 -53.8 2008-01-17 16:36:00 2009-04-14 1 -453 69912008 0 -26.0 2008-01-18 06:38:00 2009-04-14 1 -452 69912008 50 51.6 2008-01-18 07:11:00 2009-04-14 1 -452 > levels(FDLFDPdata0000[FDLFDPdata0000$ID==69912008,]$tempcalved2) [1] "2008-03-13" "2008-03-15" "2008-03-23" "2008-03-27" "2008-03-28" "2008-03-30" "2008-04-03" "2008-04-05" "2008-04-06" "2008-04-13" "2008-04-14" [12] "2008-04-16" "2008-04-17" "2008-04-18" "2008-04-20" "2008-04-22" "2008-04-26" "2008-04-27" "2008-04-30" "2008-05-01" "2008-05-04" "2008-05-08" [23] "2008-05-09" "2008-05-13" "2008-05-20" "2008-05-21" "2008-05-25" "2008-05-31" "2008-06-04" "2008-06-05" "2008-06-06" "2008-06-07" "2008-06-09" [34] "2008-06-10" "2008-06-11" "2008-06-12" "2008-06-14" "2008-06-15" "2008-06-16" "2008-06-24" "2008-06-29" "2008-07-03" "2008-07-04" "2008-07-05" [45] "2008-07-07" "2008-07-09" "2008-07-11" "2008-07-13" "2008-07-14" "2008-07-17" "2008-07-18" "2008-07-19" "2008-07-20" "2008-07-21" "2008-07-23" [56] "2008-07-24" "2008-07-25" "2008-07-26" "2008-07-27" "2008-07-28" "2008-07-30" "2008-07-31" "2008-08-01" "2008-08-03" "2008-08-04" "2008-08-08" [67] "2008-08-10" "2008-08-12" "2008-08-13" "2008-08-16" "2008-08-23" "2008-08-24" "2008-08-25" "2008-08-31" "2008-09-01" "2008-09-08" "2008-09-10" [78] "2008-09-12" "2008-09-14" "2008-09-24" "2008-09-25" "2008-09-26" "2008-09-29" "2008-09-30" "2008-10-01" "2008-10-02" "2008-10-03" "2008-10-04" [89] "2008-10-05" "2008-10-09" "2008-10-11" "2008-10-13" "2008-10-14" "2008-10-17" "2008-10-18" "2008-10-20" "2008-10-21" "2008-10-22" "2008-10-23" [100] "2008-10-25" "2008-10-27" "2008-10-28" "2008-10-29" "2008-11-04" "2008-11-07" "2008-11-08" "2008-11-09" "2008-11-10" "2008-11-12" "2008-11-14" [111] "2008-11-15" "2008-11-16" "2008-11-17" "2008-11-18" "2008-11-19" "2008-11-21" "2008-11-22" "2008-11-24" "2008-12-02" "2008-12-06" "2008-12-07" [122] "2008-12-11" "2008-12-17" "2008-12-18" "2008-12-20" "2008-12-25" "2008-12-26" "2008-12-27" "2008-12-30" "2008-12-31" "2009-01-07" "2009-01-09" [133] "2009-01-10" "2009-01-13" "2009-01-17" "2009-01-18" "2009-01-19" "2009-01-20" "2009-01-22" "2009-01-23" "2009-01-25" "2009-01-26" "2009-01-28" [144] "2009-01-29" "2009-01-31" "2009-02-01" "2009-02-02" "2009-02-04" "2009-02-05" "2009-02-07" "2009-02-08" "2009-02-09" "2009-02-11" "2009-02-12" [155] "2009-02-16" "2009-02-19" "2009-02-24" "2009-02-25" "2009-02-27" "2009-02-28" "2009-03-01" "2009-03-04" "2009-03-06" "2009-03-14" "2009-03-18" [166] "2009-03-19" "2009-03-20" "2009-03-21" "2009-03-25" "2009-03-26" "2009-03-29" "2009-03-30" "2009-04-01" "2009-04-04" "2009-04-05" "2009-04-08" [177] "2009-04-10" "2009-04-14" "2009-04-17" "2009-04-19" "2009-04-20" "2009-04-22" "2009-04-24" "2009-04-25" "2009-04-26" "2009-04-28" "2009-05-01" [188] "2009-05-02" "2009-05-03" "2009-05-04" "2009-05-05" "2009-05-06" "2009-05-07" "2009-05-08" "2009-05-11" "2009-05-15" "2009-05-17" "2009-05-18" [199] "2009-05-30" "2009-05-31" "2009-06-05" "2009-06-06" "2009-06-07" "2009-06-08" "2009-06-10" "2009-06-12" "2009-06-14" "2009-06-15" "2009-06-18" [210] "2009-06-23" "2009-06-24" "2009-06-25" "2009-06-26" "2009-06-28" "2009-06-29" "2009-07-03" "2009-07-04" "2009-07-05" "2009-07-06" "2009-07-08" [221] "2009-07-09" "2009-07-12" "2009-07-14" "2009-07-15" "2009-07-18" > levels(FDLFDPdata0000[FDLFDPdata0000$ID==69912008,]$tempcalved2)[FDLFDPdata0000[FDLFDPdata0000$ID==69912008,]$tempcalved2]<-'2008-03-08' Warning message: In `[<-.factor`(`*tmp*`, iseq, value = c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, : invalid factor level, NAs generated > FDLFDPdata0000[FDLFDPdata0000$ID==69912008,] ID Target Actual Date Time tempcalved2 tempLact2 DIM 69912008 50.0 0.0 2008-01-16 14:42:00 <NA> 1 -454 69912008 50.0 51.8 2008-01-17 05:23:00 <NA> 1 -453 69912008 50.0 0.0 2008-01-17 14:01:00 <NA> 1 -453 69912008 50.0 -53.8 2008-01-17 16:36:00 <NA> 1 -453 69912008 0.0 -26.0 2008-01-18 06:38:00 <NA> 1 -452 69912008 50.0 51.6 2008-01-18 07:11:00 <NA> 1 -452 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.