Re: [R] Re-ordering factors

Thanks to James and Phil and Peter for their helpful suggestions. I think that I should also point out one way *not* to do the job: > xtabs(Count ~ Education + Age_Group, data=educ) Age_Group Education>64 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 CompletedHS 7558 16431 1855 9435 8795

Re: [R] Re-ordering factors

James Reilly wrote: > Using reorder.factor from the stats package seems to work: > > educ$ed <- reorder(educ$Education, sort(rep(1:4,5))) > levels(educ$Education) > [1] "CompletedHS" "IncompleteHS" "Uni1-3" "Uni4+" > levels(educ$ed) > [1] "IncompleteHS" "CompletedHS" "Uni1-3" "Uni4+"

Re: [R] Re-ordering factors

Using reorder.factor from the stats package seems to work: educ$ed <- reorder(educ$Education, sort(rep(1:4,5))) levels(educ$Education) [1] "CompletedHS" "IncompleteHS" "Uni1-3" "Uni4+" levels(educ$ed) [1] "IncompleteHS" "CompletedHS" "Uni1-3" "Uni4+" xtabs(Count ~ ed + Age_Group, d

[R] Re-ordering factors

A small example before I begin my query: > educ <- read.table(efile, header=TRUE) > educ Education Age_Group Count 1 IncompleteHS 25-34 5416 2 IncompleteHS 35-44 5030 3 IncompleteHS 45-54 5777 4 IncompleteHS 55-64 7606 5 IncompleteHS >64 13746 6 CompletedHS