[R] Ordering in factors ...

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 j.logsdon at lancaster.ac.uk wrote:

> This is a trivial question probably buried in page 21 somewhere of An
> Idiot's Guide to R.
>
> In MASS(2) P26 for S-Plus you can write:
>
> ordered(income)<-c("Lo","Mid","Hi")
>
> but in R 1.5.0 you get the response to such an instruction:
>
> Error: couldn't find function "ordered<-"
>
> What's the fix to this?  I have a series of models where the factors as
> reported need re-ordering so that the glm reports the coefficients with
> respect to the correct level.  At the moment, while the solutions are
> identical, I actually have to do some arithmetic to show this.

There are scripts for MASS3 in the VR bundle, which give

income <- ordered(c("Mid","Hi","Lo","Mid","Lo","Hi","Lo"))
income
as.numeric(income)

inc <- ordered(c("Mid","Hi","Lo","Mid","Lo","Hi","Lo"),
    levels = c("Lo", "Mid", "Hi"))
inc

ordered factors in R are not quite the same as those in S.


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