> xx <- as.factor(c("AL", "AK", "CA", "FL"))
> xx
[1] AL AK CA FL
Levels: AK AL CA FL
> as.character(xx)
[1] "AL" "AK" "CA" "FL"I hope this helps. Chel Hee Lee On 14-11-22 01:12 AM, Aditya Singh wrote:
Dear Boris and R-Experts, I have a variable my_state which is a 2-letter character string telling which American state the user inputs. This I am do a if(identical(database entry,my_state)) to check for occurrences in the database. The problem is that the database entry[i,j] shows as a factor with various levels, e.g. the output when I do class(database[i,j])is: [1] "TX" AL.. levels through WY How do I convert a factor into a character? Aditya On Saturday, November 22, 2014 12:40 AM, Boris Steipe <[email protected]> wrote: Seems to me you probably wanted a "while" in line 4. N.b. There's also a missing "}" and totally messed up formatting :-( B. On Nov 21, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Aditya Singh <[email protected]> wrote:1 my_min= min(outcome_data[which(outcome_data$State==my_state),11],na.rm=TRUE) 2 print(my_min) 3 jkr=0 4 if (jkr<= 4706) {jkr=jkr+1 5 if (identical(outcome_data[jkr,11],my_min) && identical(outcome_data[jkr,7],my_state)) { 6 print((outcome_data[jkr,2])) 7 break 8 } Dear Experts, My computer is never 'inside' of the if condition at line 5, as jkr=0 always. my_min is a numeric. my_state is a 2 letter American State (character). This code gives NULL as output. Wondering! Its either very obvious or I am very dumb. Please do do reply! Aditya ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.______________________________________________ [email protected] 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. ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
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