[R] generating factors from the edit function

Dieter Menne dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de
Sat Mar 5 10:56:44 CET 2011


Erin Hodgess-2 wrote:
> 
> Here is a little function that I put together:
> 
>> fact1
> function(x) {
> n <- ncol(x)
> for(i in 1:n) {
> if(mode(x[,i])=="character")x[,i] <- factor(x[,i])
> }
> return(x)
> }
>>
> 
> 
See 

http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch/msg22459.html

for a more R-ish approach. I find the d[] <- an FFQ (frequently forgotten
solution)

Dieter

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