I don't know if it's "the fastest" way, but you can get there with
as.character(factor(exData$Condition, levels=c("c20", "c10", "c9", "c5"), labels=c("AA", "BB", "CC", "DD"))) -Ista On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:06 PM, phoebe kong <sityeek...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a dataset with a column named "Condition", > > > Sample Condition > 1 c20 > 2 c20 > 3 c10 > 4 c10 > 5 c9 > 6 c9 > 7 c5 > 8 c5 > 9 c20 > 10 c10 > > Could you let me know the fastest way to change c20->"AA", c20->"BB", > c9->"CC", c5->"DD" without using for loop? > > Thanks > phoebe > > [[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. > -- Ista Zahn Graduate student University of Rochester Department of Clinical and Social Psychology http://yourpsyche.org ______________________________________________ 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.