[R] Subset: data frames and factor levels

[Weidong Gu]

Try drop.levels in library gdata.

Weidong Gu, 
Department of Medicine
University of Alabama, Birmingham
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-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
On Behalf Of Agustin Lobo
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 3:26 AM
To: Stefan Grosse
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Subset: data frames and factor levels

Thanks, problem solved thanks to your hints, but, within subset(), 
drop=T still keeps
the unused levels (I'm using 2.6.1 on win).
Agus

Stefan Grosse escribió:
> On Tuesday 01 April 2008 09:43:00 am Agustin Lobo wrote:
> AL> I'm doing:
> AL> etni <- subset(etni, NAMECOM!="Maniquisito")
> AL>
> AL> where etni is a data.frame, NAMECOM a factor and "Maniquisito"
labels
> AL> a row that I want to delete.
> AL>
> AL> The problem is that while the row is deleted, the factor level is
still
> AL> there (I can see "Maniquisito" if I do levels(etni$NAMECOM) ).
> 
> See
>
http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-manip:drop_unused_
levels
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
> 

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