[R] Recode of text variables

[Rolf Turner]

Uhhh, Bill, he wanted E to be recoded as ``Treat 3''.
And he didn't say ***what*** he wanted to happen to D.

Fancy.  A chance to ``correct'' Bill Venables for a second time
in two days! :-)

	cheers,

		Rolf

On 2/04/2009, at 12:39 PM, Bill.Venables at csiro.au wrote:

> Here is one way
>
>> x <- c("A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "A")
>> x
> [1] "A" "B" "C" "D" "E" "A"
>> f <- factor(x)
>> levels(f)
> [1] "A" "B" "C" "D" "E"
>> levels(f) <- c(rep("Treat1",2), rep("Treat2", 3))
>> f
> [1] Treat1 Treat1 Treat2 Treat2 Treat2 Treat1
> Levels: Treat1 Treat2
>>
>
> If you really want the charactre variable you can put
>
>> x <- as.character(f)
>
> _____
>
> That's fascinating about Microsoft Access, but, uh... never mind.

	Yeah.  ***Absolutely fascinating***. :-)

	Remind me to tell you sometime the story about the girl
	who went to finishing school in Switzerland ....

		R.

> Bill Venables
> http://www.cmis.csiro.au/bill.venables/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r- 
> project.org] On Behalf Of Andrew McFadden
> Sent: Thursday, 2 April 2009 9:23 AM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Recode of text variables
>
> Hi all
>
> I am trying to do a simple recode which I am stumbling on. I figure
> there must be any easy way but haven't come across it.
>
> Given data of A","B","C","D","E","A" it would be nice to recode this
> into say three categories ie A and B becomes "Treat1", C becomes  
> "Treat
> 2" and E becomes "Treat 3".
>
> I tried the car library but it didn't seem to like text. Also it seems
> you can only recode into two categories.
>
>
> library(car)
>
> x<-c("A","B","C","D","E","A")
> x
> recode(x, "c(A,B)='Treat 1'; else='Treat 2'")
> recode(x, "1:2='A'; 3='B'")
>
> In Microsoft access a simple way of recoding is to join two tables  
> in a
> query any simple way of doing the same in R?
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andy
>
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