Check for leading or trailing spaces in the strings in your data. dput(dataset) would show them.
Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.ster...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tara, > > It seems that you categorise and count for each category. Could it be that > the method you use puts everything that doesn't match the predefined > categories in Other? > > I'm only guessing because without a minimal reproducible example it's > difficult to do anything else. > > Best wishes > Ulrik > > Rui Barradas <ruipbarra...@sapo.pt> schrieb am Do., 1. Juni 2017, 17:30: > > > Hello, > > > > In order for us to help we need to know how you've imported your data. > > What was the file type? What instructions have you used to import it? > > Did you use base R or a package? > > Give us a minimal but complete code example that can reproduce your > > situation. > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > Rui Barradas > > > > Em 01-06-2017 11:02, Tara Adcock escreveu: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a question regarding data importing into R. > > > > > > When I import my data into R and review the summary, some of my > > explanatory variables are being reported as if instead of being one > > variable, they are two with the same name. See below for an example; > > > > > > Behav person Behav dog Position > > > **combination : 38 combination : 4** Bank :372 > > > **combination : 7 combination : 4** **Island :119** > > > fast :123 fast : 15 **Island : 11** > > > slow :445 slow : 95 Land : 3 > > > stat :111 stat : 14 Water :230 > > > > > > Also, all of the distances I have imported are showing up in the > summary > > along with a line entitled "other". However, I haven't used any other > > distances? > > > > > > Distance Distance.dog > > > 2-10m :184 <50m : 35 > > > <50m :156 2-10m : 27 > > > 10-20m :156 20-30m : 23 > > > 20-30m : 91 30-40m : 16 > > > 40-50m : 57 10-20m : 13 > > > **(Other): 82 (Other): 18** > > > > > > I have checked my data sheet over and over again and I think > > standardised the data, but the issue keeps arising. I'm assuming I need > to > > clean the data set but as a nearly complete novice in R I am not certain > > how to do this. Any help at all with this would be much appreciated. > Thanks > > so much. > > > > > > Kind Regards, > > > > > > Tara Adcock. > > > > > > > > > [[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. > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > [[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. > [[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.
