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

Oliver Bandel oliver at first.in-berlin.de
Sun Nov 16 17:06:38 CET 2008


Philipp Pagel <p.pagel <at> wzw.tum.de> writes:

[...]
> 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.

Oh, ok, this looks interesting.
I didn't used that option  so far.

It seems to be very convenient!

Thanks for the hint.

Ciao,
   Oliver



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