Re: [R] ordinal variables

2010-06-04 Thread Iasonas Lamprianou
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Re: [R] ordinal variables

2010-06-04 Thread Joris Meys
; Honorary Research Fellow > Department of Education > The University of Manchester > Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK > Tel. 0044  161 275 3485 > iasonas.lampria...@manchester.ac.uk > > > --- On Thu, 3/6/10, S Ellison wrote: > >> From: S Ellison >> Subject: R

Re: [R] ordinal variables

2010-06-03 Thread Iasonas Lamprianou
mpria...@manchester.ac.uk --- On Thu, 3/6/10, S Ellison wrote: > From: S Ellison > Subject: Re: [R] ordinal variables > To: "Joris Meys" , "Iasonas Lamprianou" > > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Date: Thursday, 3 June, 2010, 15:44 > If you set them a proble

Re: [R] ordinal variables

2010-06-03 Thread S Ellison
h Fellow Department of Education The University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK Tel. 0044 161 275 3485 iasonas.lampria...@manchester.ac.uk --- On Thu, 3/6/10, Joris Meys wrote: From: Joris Meys Subject: Re: [R] ordinal variables To: "Iasonas Lamprianou" Cc: r-help

Re: [R] ordinal variables

2010-06-03 Thread Iasonas Lamprianou
3485 iasonas.lampria...@manchester.ac.uk --- On Thu, 3/6/10, Joris Meys wrote: From: Joris Meys Subject: Re: [R] ordinal variables To: "Iasonas Lamprianou" Cc: r-help@r-project.org Date: Thursday, 3 June, 2010, 14:35 see ?factor and ?as.factor. On ordered factors you can technically

Re: [R] ordinal variables

2010-06-03 Thread Joris Meys
see ?factor and ?as.factor. On ordered factors you can technically do a spearman without problem, apart from the fact that a spearman test by definition cannot give exact p-values with ties present. x <- sample(c("a","b","c","d","e"),100,replace=T) y <- sample(c("a","b","c","d","e"),100,replace=T)

Re: [R] ordinal variables

2010-06-03 Thread Iasonas Lamprianou
Dear colleagues, I teach statistics using SPSS. I want to use R instead. I hit on one problem and I need some quick advice. When I want to work with ordinal variables, in SPSS I can compute the median or create a barchart or compute a spearman correlation with no problems. In R, if I "read" the