Re: [R] changing variables in a dataset

2009-05-06 Thread David Winsemius
t;schung" , r-help@r-project.org Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 10:49:54 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [R] changing variables in a dataset you could use chickwts$feed<- as.numeric(levels(chickwts$feed))[as.integer(chickwts$feed)] I got this by searching archives of old

Re: [R] changing variables in a dataset

2009-05-06 Thread Federman, Douglas
you could use chickwts$feed<- as.numeric(levels(chickwts$feed))[as.integer(chickwts$feed)] I got this by searching archives of old messages. I can't recall why the simpler as.numeric(chickwts$feed) is not an appropriate all around solution. -- "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cell