Re: [R] Column header strategy

2010-07-08 Thread RICHARD M. HEIBERGER
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Addi Wei wrote: > > Hopefully simple question: What is the best way to name, and treat factor > columns for data that has lots of columns? > > This is my column list: > id pID50 D.1 D.2 D.3 D.4 D.5 , etc. all the way to D.185 > It would be much better to use a fac

Re: [R] Column header strategy

2010-07-08 Thread Peter Ehlers
On 2010-07-08 13:14, Addi Wei wrote: Hopefully simple question: What is the best way to name, and treat factor columns for data that has lots of columns? This is my column list: id pID50 D.1 D.2 D.3 D.4 D.5 , etc. all the way to D.185 I was under the impression from several R examples in pls

Re: [R] Column header strategy

2010-07-08 Thread Joshua Wiley
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Addi Wei wrote: > > Hopefully simple question:  What is the best way to name, and treat factor > columns for data that has lots of columns? > > This is my column list: > id pID50 D.1 D.2 D.3 D.4 D.5 , etc. all the way to D.185 > > I was under the impression from se

Re: [R] Column header strategy

2010-07-08 Thread David Winsemius
On Jul 8, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Addi Wei wrote: Hopefully simple question: What is the best way to name, and treat factor columns for data that has lots of columns? This is my column list: id pID50 D.1 D.2 D.3 D.4 D.5 , etc. all the way to D.185 I was under the impression from several R exam

[R] Column header strategy

2010-07-08 Thread Addi Wei
Hopefully simple question: What is the best way to name, and treat factor columns for data that has lots of columns? This is my column list: id pID50 D.1 D.2 D.3 D.4 D.5 , etc. all the way to D.185 I was under the impression from several R examples in pls that if you name your columns like ab