[R] Changing values (factors) does not change levels of that value?!

[David Winsemius]

On Nov 16, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Philipp Pagel wrote:
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> As you are reading the data from a file anyway, the simplest
> solution would probably be to use the colClasses argument ot
> read.table in order to get numeric avlues in the first place.

Or use stringsAsFactors = FALSE,

If you have a number of variables greater than 10, setting up  
colClasses can be fairly laborious and error prone, at least for this  
newbie.

-- 
David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Labs


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> 	Philipp
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> Dr. Philipp Pagel
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> Technische Universität München
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