Re: [R] Level name as object name

assign(levels(data$Species)[1], 1:10) or you might want to consider the use of a list depending on what you are trying to do. On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:26 PM, jimdare wrote: > > Hi, > > If I have a dataset called "data" with a factor called "Species" that has > three levels "Sp1", "Sp2", and "Sp3

[R] Level name as object name

Hi, If I have a dataset called "data" with a factor called "Species" that has three levels "Sp1", "Sp2", and "Sp3". Is there a way to name an object after a specific level? I have tried the code below and get the error "error in paste(levels(data$Species)[1]) <- 1:10 could not find function "