[R] ordering of levels.

[Wolski]

Hi!
Thanks a lot.
Eryk

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On 7/26/2004 at 2:07 PM Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote:

>>>Wolski wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>> Have the following factors with the following levels.
>>>>  tmp$norm
>>>>  [1] rank rank rank rank rank log  log  log  rank sqrt sqrt sqrt log 
>>>log  rank
>>>> [16] rank rank sqrt sqrt sqrt sqrt log  log  log  log  sqrt none none
>>>none none
>>>> [31] none none none none sqrt none
>>>> Levels: log none rank sqrt
>>>> 
>>>> I would like to add an ordering to the levels.
>>>> none<sqrt<log<rank
>>>> 
>>>> I tried with 
>>>> tmp$norm <-factor(tmp$norm,labels =
>>>c("none","sqrt","log","rank"),ordered=T)
>>>> 
>>>>>tmp$norm
>>>> 
>>>>  [1] log  log  log  log  log  none none none log  rank rank rank none
>>>none log 
>>>> [16] log  log  rank rank rank rank none none none none rank sqrt sqrt
>>>sqrt sqrt
>>>> [31] sqrt sqrt sqrt sqrt rank sqrt
>>>> Levels: none < sqrt < log < rank
>>>> 
>>>> But this is not what I would like to have because the command not only
>>>superimposes an ordering but also changes the factors!
>>>> 
>>>> Eryk
>>>> 
>>>
>>>Eryk,
>>>   See ?factor or ?ordered which will help. I think what you want is:
>>>
>>>lev <- c("none", "sqrt", "log", "rank")
>>>tmp$norm <- ordered(tmp$norm, levels = lev)
>>>
>>>or
>>>
>>>tmp$norm <- factor(tmp$norm, levels = lev, ordered = TRUE)
>>>
>>>Note the use of "levels" and not "labels".
>>>
>>>--sundar



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