> > > How to safely avoid this warning massage? > Now I have <NA> instead of "Total" in last row State column. How to I > replace it as "Total"? > > Dear All,
The below link provides a very good explanation of "Creating factor variables" and way to avoid the warning message http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/R/modules/factor_variables.htm Now it works for me without warning message ( invalid factor level, NAs generated ) according to the document above , I did below to avoid the warning: > data <- read.csv(file='ipsample.csv',sep=',' , header=TRUE) > data State Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun 1 AAA 1 1 0 2 2 0 2 BBB 1298 1195 1212 1244 1158 845 3 CCC 0 0 0 1 2 1 4 DDD 5 11 17 15 10 9 5 EEE 18 28 27 23 23 16 6 FFF 68 152 184 135 111 86 > a <- rbind(data, c("Total",apply(data[,-1], 2, sum, na.rm=TRUE))) Warning message: In `[<-.factor`(`*tmp*`, ri, value = "Total") : invalid factor level, NAs generated > a State Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun 1 AAA 1 1 0 2 2 0 2 BBB 1298 1195 1212 1244 1158 845 3 CCC 0 0 0 1 2 1 4 DDD 5 11 17 15 10 9 5 EEE 18 28 27 23 23 16 6 FFF 68 152 184 135 111 86 7 <NA> 1390 1387 1440 1420 1306 957 We can see that instead of "Total", the label was <NA>. To do this correctly, I have added the new level, "Total", to the factor column data$State using the factor function with the levels argument. Then I can finally add an element to the factor variable from the new level. here is the steps > levels(data$State) [1] "AAA" "BBB" "CCC " "DDD" "EEE" "FFF" > data$State <- factor(data$State,levels=c(levels(data$State),"Total")) > data$State [1] AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FFF Levels: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FFF Total > levels(data$State) [1] "AAA" "BBB" "CCC " "DDD" "EEE" "FFF" "Total" > x <- rbind(data, c("Total",apply(data[,-1], 2, sum, na.rm=TRUE))) Now the above works without warning. > x State Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun 1 AAA 1 1 0 2 2 0 2 BBB 1298 1195 1212 1244 1158 845 3 CCC 0 0 0 1 2 1 4 DDD 5 11 17 15 10 9 5 EEE 18 28 27 23 23 16 6 FFF 68 152 184 135 111 86 7 Total 1390 1387 1440 1420 1306 957 I think I am doing right. If I miss understood anything. Please guide me I am beginer to R. Thanks & Rg Mohan L [[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.