Re: [R] Assign Character Value to Data Frame

That column of your data frame contains a factor, rather than character values. You don't tell us how you created the data frame, but you might be interested in the stringsAsFactors option to data.frame() and read.table(). Or, if you do actually want a factor for that column, you can use factor()

Re: [R] Assign Character Value to Data Frame

Hi John, The error arises because the "hold" data frame contains factors. This happens by default when creating data frames with character data as you did. Factors have a set number of levels and new values cannot be assigned to them that fall outside their specified levels, hence the error. Th