Hi, I am using a data called Rail in the nlme package. The data contains two variables: Rail and Travel. >Rail Grouped Data: travel ~ 1 | Rail Rail travel 1 1 55 2 1 53 3 1 54 4 2 26 5 2 37 6 2 32 7 3 78 8 3 91 9 3 85 10 4 92 11 4 100 12 4 96 13 5 49 14 5 51 15 5 50 16 6 80 17 6 85 18 6 83 >Rail$Rail >[1] 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 6 >Levels: 2 < 5 < 1 < 6 < 3 < 4
Then I used the contrasts function as: >contrasts(Rail$Rail) And it returns with some strange continuous values: .L .Q .C ^4 ^5 [1,] -0.5976143 0.5455447 -0.3726780 0.1889822 -0.06299408 [2,] -0.3585686 -0.1091089 0.5217492 -0.5669467 0.31497039 [3,] -0.1195229 -0.4364358 0.2981424 0.3779645 -0.62994079 [4,] 0.1195229 -0.4364358 -0.2981424 0.3779645 0.62994079 [5,] 0.3585686 -0.1091089 -0.5217492 -0.5669467 -0.31497039 [6,] 0.5976143 0.5455447 0.3726780 0.1889822 0.06299408 I am expecting to see 0s and 1s in the contrast, but it may be due to the order of the factor levels for Rail variable? Best, Jing [[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.