Hi Wade, Try (untested):
df2[j,1] <- as.character(f2$Site)[i] If that does not work, which is very likely, could you please provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code? HTH, Jorge On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Wade Wall <> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a dataframe (df1) that I am trying to select values from to a second > dataframe that at the current time is only for the selected items from df1 > (df2). The values that I am trying to save from df1 are factors with > alphanumeric names > > df1 looks like this: > > 'data.frame': 3014 obs. of 13 variables: > $ Num : int 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 ... > $ Tag_Num : int 1195 1195 1195 1162 1162 1162 1106 1106 1106 1173 ... > $ Site : Factor w/ 25 levels "PYBR002A","PYBR003B",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 > 1 > 1 1 1 ... > $ Site_IndNum : Factor w/ 1044 levels "PYBR002A_001",..: 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 > 4 ... > .... ... > $ Area : num 463.3 29.5 101.8 152.9 34.6 ... > > However, whenever I try to assign values, like this > > df2[j,1]<-df2$Site[i] > > the values are changed from alphanumeric (e.g. PYBR003A) to numerals (e.g. > 1). > > Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can assign the actual > values from df1 to df2? > > Thanks in advance, > > Wade > > [[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. > [[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.
