[R] Weird problem with median on a factor

[Christoph Bier]

Simon Fear schrieb:
> The last part of my message is what I thought might be the cause -
> maybe your median is not an integer, so what category
> should it be mapped to? What do you get if you slip
> in an `as.numeric` before calculating the median?
> [if still an error, then there is definitely something else
> going wrong to report]

Then everything is ok.

 > as.numeric(fbhint.spss1$V15.SP1) -> tmp.data2
 > median(tmp.data2, na.rm=T)
[1] 2

Christoph
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