As you appear not to know, or at least have not stated, **what** you want to do, how can you expect anyone to tell you **how** to do it?
Cheers, Bert On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Bert Gunter wrote: > >> You do not need to use ordered factors. >> newfac <- factor(oldfac, lev= ...) ## will do it. e.g. >> >>> x <- factor(letters[1:3]) ## default ordering is alphabetic (mod locale) >>> x >> >> [1] a b c >> Levels: a b c >>> >>> y <- factor(x,lev=letters[3:1]) ## reorder the levels >>> y >> >> [1] a b c >> Levels: c b a > > > Bert, > > Makes sense. I wonder if this will work when only a portion of the site > IDs need to be explicitly ordered. There are 64 sites in all. Might be > easier to sort the text file. > > Thanks again, > > Rich > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ 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.
