Re: [R] recoding variables-recode not working

2010-04-08 Thread Vlatka Matkovic Puljic
Now I have :) Thanx a lot! 2010/4/8 David Winsemius > > On Apr 8, 2010, at 8:13 AM, Vlatka Matkovic Puljic wrote: > > Dear, >> >> my variable is numerical indicating how many times smb done test >> summary(Q12) >> Min. 1st Qu. MedianMean 3rd Qu.Max.NA's >> 0. 0. 0.

Re: [R] recoding variables-recode not working

2010-04-08 Thread David Winsemius
On Apr 8, 2010, at 8:13 AM, Vlatka Matkovic Puljic wrote: Dear, my variable is numerical indicating how many times smb done test summary(Q12) Min. 1st Qu. MedianMean 3rd Qu.Max.NA's 0. 0. 0. 0.7989 1. 30. 66. I want to change this to categories--> 0=

Re: [R] recoding variables-recode not working

2010-04-08 Thread Vlatka Matkovic Puljic
Dear, my variable is numerical indicating how many times smb done test summary(Q12) Min. 1st Qu. MedianMean 3rd Qu.Max.NA's 0. 0. 0. 0.7989 1. 30. 66. I want to change this to categories--> 0=none testing; 1:30=done testing (NA excluded) John, *cut(Q

Re: [R] recoding variables-recode not working

2010-04-07 Thread John Fox
Dear Vlatka, It's impossible to know what the problem is without knowing something about your data, which you didn't tell us either in this message or your subsequent one. The recode command should work: > (x <- c(rep(0, 5), sample(1:30, 5, replace=TRUE))) [1] 0 0 0 0 0 17 27 19 19 2 > r

Re: [R] recoding variables-recode not working

2010-04-07 Thread David Winsemius
On Apr 7, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Vlatka Matkovic Puljic wrote: atomic [1:1578] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... - attr(*, "levels")= chr "0=0,1:33=1" Can you go back to where you got this data and start over? You have made something that looks quite strange. It appears to be neither a vector of mode a

Re: [R] recoding variables-recode not working

2010-04-07 Thread David Winsemius
On Apr 7, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Vlatka Matkovic Puljic wrote: Hi, I have numerical variable that I want to recode into categories '0' and '1 and more' and do analysis with that data. I have tried various of possibilities to do so, but I am sucked and nothing is working. recode(Q12, "0='A';1

Re: [R] recoding variables-recode not working

2010-04-07 Thread Vlatka Matkovic Puljic
atomic [1:1578] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... - attr(*, "levels")= chr "0=0,1:33=1" 2010/4/7 David Winsemius > > On Apr 7, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Vlatka Matkovic Puljic wrote: > > Hi, >> >> I have numerical variable that I want to recode into categories '0' and '1 >> and more' and do analysis with that d