[R] Recoding factors

Chuck Cleland ccleland at optonline.net
Mon Oct 18 13:46:34 CEST 2004


   See ?levels.  I think you want something like the following:

levels(myfact) <- c("Singleton", "Multiple", "Multiple")

Neil Leonard wrote:
> I'm having a bit of trouble recoding factors in a fields.
> 
> I have a field which has the factors Singleton, Twin and Triplet.
> I want to recode the field to have only the factors Singleton and Multiple.
> 
> Any advice?


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