Re: [R] Question on levels function and extracting the associated level number

Jeffrey, You can try > as.numeric(state) [1] 6 5 4 2 2 3 8 8 4 7 2 7 4 4 5 6 5 3 8 7 4 2 2 8 5 1 2 7 7 1 HTH, Jorge On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Jeffrey Cexun Cai <> wrote: > > > > Dear Sir/Madam, > > > > I have a quick question, which I hope someone can help. > > > > I am using the leve

[R] Question on levels function and extracting the associated level number

> > Dear Sir/Madam, > > I have a quick question, which I hope someone can help. > > I am using the levels function in R, which helps to summarize the number of > factors that I have in a vector in an ordered manner. > > Using an already existing example: > > > state <- c("tas", "sa", "qld", "nsw",