Re: [R] drop unused levels in sqldf

Thanx guys, practical and effective solutions. Gianandrea glaporta wrote: > > Hi, > sqldf is a fantastic package, but when the SELECT procedure runs unused > levels remain in the output. I tried with the drop function, but without > success. Do you have any suggestions? > Thanx, Gianandrea > >

Re: [R] drop unused levels in sqldf

Here are two approaches: 1. rename the column to circumvent the column classing heuristic. In the following Species will be a 3-level factor and Species2 will be a 2-level factor sqldf("select *, Species as Species2 from iris where Species <> 'setosa'") 2. use method = "raw". This code below r

Re: [R] drop unused levels in sqldf

If you want to suppress the unused level of Species, you can use factor() : table(base$Species) table(factor(base$Species)) 2008/8/28 glaporta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi, > sqldf is a fantastic package, but when the SELECT procedure runs unused > levels remain in the output. I tried with the dro