[R] converting a factor in numeric values with direct control of the numeric values

[ronggui]

BTW, a better  way to convert factor into a numeric variable is to use
unclass().

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Jörg Groß <joerg at licht-malerei.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know how to convert a factor-variable into a numeric variable via
> as.numeric().
>
> But how can I control the values that are assigned?
>
>
> For example, I have this factor-variable:
>
>
> z <- c("male", "male", "female")
> z <- as.factor(z)
>
>
> And I want to convert male in 3 and female into the numeric value 5 (just
> for the example)
>
> so that I get:
>
> [1] 3 3 5
>
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
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