Hi Erin, I would set up the data.frame the way you want it before calling fix(). Something like
test2df <- data.frame(v1=numeric(), v2=factor()) test2df <- fix(test2df) Best, Ista On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear R People: > > If I use the fix or edit function for a new data frame, I would like > to have my character data as factors. > > Is there a "built in" way to do this, please? > > Here is what I did: > >> test2.df <- data.frame() >> test2.df <- fix(test2.df,factor.mode="character") >> str(test2.df) > 'data.frame': 5 obs. of 2 variables: > $ var1: num 1 2 3 4 5 > $ var2: chr "a" "a" "g" "g" ... >> > The character data is simply that. I would like create factors when I > enter character data. > > Thank you! > > Sincerely, > > Erin > > > -- > Erin Hodgess > Associate Professor > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences > University of Houston - Downtown > mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Ista Zahn Graduate student University of Rochester Department of Clinical and Social Psychology http://yourpsyche.org ______________________________________________ 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.
