On Dec 6, 2014, at 6:37 PM, Edoardo Prestianni wrote: > Excuse the inaccuracy, the warning is "value label missing". the same > variable is considered as factor (w/ values ranging from a to b) in one > dataset, as int in another. I want it to be a factor in both.
So, you are importing two different Stata formatted files an in only one of them is the warning being emitted? > > I think I am missing a package, the output is. > > Error in head(dfrm[, "variable"]) : object 'dfrm' not found My intent was for you to substitute the name of your dataframe for the token `dfrm`. head(yourDataObject[, "yourVariableNameInQuotes"]) -- David. > > > 2014-12-07 3:14 GMT+01:00 David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>: > > On Dec 6, 2014, at 3:54 PM, Edoardo Prestianni wrote: > > > hello, > > > > I have imported a couple of .dta datasets, but a variable, instead of being > > labeled as factor (w/ values ranging from a to b) is labeled as integer. > > > > How can I fix this? I am sorry if it is a rookie question but I don't find > > the command googling. > > What "command"? > > The word "labeled" is not an R term unless on is talking about the labels of > factor variables in which case there is no problem. Factors have mode integer. > > Post the results of dput(head( dfrm[ , "varname"])) > > -- > David. > > > > Thanks everyone for their help, > > > > -- > > Edoardo Prestianni > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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. > > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > > > > > -- > Edoardo Prestianni David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
