[R] factor creation

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 anne.piotet at urbanet.ch wrote:

> Another newbie question....
>   I want to create a factor (say cT)from a numerical variable (sy temp) by 
> regrouping the values in classes (say cT <390, [390,400[,[400,409[...>=550)
> 
> Is there a simple way of doing that using the factor function?

No, but see ?cut.

> AND I do not find how to manipulate strings (I want to concatenete characters 
> strings ("abkdas","chjw") into something like ("abkdas;chjw")what operators are 
> available for strings manipulation and where do I find help??

See ?paste.  This is in `An Introduction to R', and all good books on S/R
will give you more details.

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