Hi, On Sep 9, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Martin Batholdy wrote:
> Hi, > > is there a function or an easy way to convert a variable with continuous > values into a categorial variable (with x levels)? > > here is what I mean: > > > I want to transform x: > > x <- c(3.2, 1.5, 6.8, 6.9, 8.5, 9.6, 1.1, 0.6) > > into a 'categorial'-variable with four levels so that I get: > > [1] 2 2 3 3 4 4 1 1 > > so each element is converted into its rank- value / categorial-value > (in this example four levels are created). > > Try findInterval() > x <- c(3.2, 1.5, 6.8, 6.9, 8.5, 9.6, 1.1, 0.6) > findInterval(x, c(0, 1.5, 6, 8)) [1] 2 2 3 3 4 4 1 1 CHeers, Ben > > thanks for any suggestions! > > ______________________________________________ > 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. Ben Tupper Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences 180 McKown Point Rd. P.O. Box 475 West Boothbay Harbor, Maine 04575-0475 http://www.bigelow.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.
